In Japanese culture, there is an extremely contradictory dichotomous relationship between man and nature. While this is a matter of veneration, spectacularization, even mythicization, on the other hand, Japanese society has always tried to control, harness and anthropicize the natural element. In this context, the greatest imposition on the landscape is the protective infrastructure, designed in order to defend the Japanese territory from the destructive force of nature, tsunamis, typhoons, earthquakes, landslides, floods, volcanoes that continuously threaten its safety. A vast and widespread infrastructure network aimed at protecting cities has created an involuntary contemporary Japanese landscape, a continuous monument. Thissame imposing approach on the territory and on urban space has inspired the metabolist brutality, crucial in the development of contemporary Japanese architecture, through which the centrality of infrastructure is exacerbated.