Teien Official Residence (Cherry, Plum, and Chrysanthemum)

The Presidential Office of the Republic of Japan (Japanese: 民國總裁公邸 Minkoku Sōsai Kōtei) is the principal workplace and residence of the President of the Republic of Japan. It is located on Minsei (OTL Shirokanedai), Minato, Tokyo, the national capital of Japan. The office is usually (and popularly) referred as the Teien (庭園), means 'garden' in Japanese, just simply because the office building is surrounded by a traditional Japanese garden. The term Teien is used as a metonym for the office of the President of the Republic of Japan.

Initially, the Akasaka Palace was served to be the official presidential office of Japan, started when President Nagayama Yoshida took his office in 1919. However, despite being designated as the official residence for President of the Republic as well, President Nagayama considered for the construction of more modest, but more modern residence outside Chiyoda District of Tokyo, the political centre of Japan. The Teien was first constructed in 1932 and finished in 1933. The official presidential office then finally moved to the Teien in 1934 and the Akasaka Palace was designated as the official government office instead.

Governmental meetings, such as cabinet meeting or the deliberation of war council, usually took hold in the Akasaka Palace. However, there were rare occurences where the meetings held in the Teien, such as the meeting between President Nagayama Yoshida, Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi and Extraordinary War Minister Marshal Matsutaka Imada in 1931 and the extraordinary war meeting between President Nagayama Yoshida, Prime Minister Hotori Etsu, Foreign Minister Konoe Fumimaro, War Minister General Katobushi Toshio and Supreme Allied Commander in the Southwest Pacific Area General Joseph Stilwell in 1944.