Why is it called a National Diet?
                                
                                
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                                The National Diet building in Tokyo was completed in 1936, but the story behind its name, the National Diet, began centuries earlier in Europe. This unusual name for a legislative body is not related to nutrition but is a direct reflection of historical political transfers and linguistic evolution.