Full-scale work began Tuesday on dismantling a residential building in Tokyo and a budget hotel in Aichi, whose quake safety parameters were falsified by disgraced architect Hidetsugu Aneha and deemed at risk of collapsing in a strong earthquake.

In Minato Ward, Tokyo, the Fukuoka-based property developer Shinoken Co. started dismantling the nine-story, eight-unit Stage Daimon building. Last Thursday, Shinoken started erecting footholds and inspecting interiors to prepare for tearing down the building.

Shinoken also conducted preparatory work Tuesday to tear down two other condo buildings in Shinjuku and Minato wards.

All three residential buildings, built with fabricated quake-resistance data, were erected by failed Kimura Construction Co. of Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.

Shinoken said the dismantling work will be completed by April.

In Aichi Prefecture, Meitetsu Fudosan Co. of Nagoya began dismantling the 11-story, 162-room Meitetsu Inn Kariya in the city of Kariya, just outside Nagoya.

The budget inn is the first hotel linked to Aneha to be destroyed since the nationwide scandal broke in November.

At 9 a.m., workers started removing various items left inside the hotel rooms, including TVs and cooking equipment.

The actual razing of the building -- at a cost of 80 million yen -- is expected to begin in mid-February and finish in June, according to Meitetsu Fudosan, a subsidiary of railway operator Nagoya Railroad Co.,which operates the Meitetsu Inn hotel chain. Opened in May 2003, the Kariya hotel was the chain's first.

The company said it aims to open a replacement hotel building in 2007 on the same site to cater for an increasing number of business travelers around JR Kariya Station, which is served by the Tokaido Shinkansen Line.

Meanwhile, the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry plans to look into the number of reinforcing bars, quality of concrete and wall cracks at the defective buildings, ministry sources said.

On Tuesday, the Setagaya Ward office in Tokyo issued an order banning the use of a two-building condominium.

The ward office will ask 31 households in the five- and three-story Grand Stage Chitose-Karasuyama condos to vacate by the end of this month, officials said.

The building is one of many defective condos sold by property developer Huser Ltd.

The House of Representatives Committee on Land, Infrastructure and Transport meanwhile decided to summon Huser President Susumu Ojima, 52, to speak before the panel on Jan. 17 as a sworn witness.

One of the focal points is whether Huser sold condominiums after becoming aware of the building code violations.

A panel of the governing Liberal Democratic Party called in engineers, senior officials and their lawyers Tuesday from a Tokyo-based consulting firm for hotel construction and operations, General Management Consultant.

At the hearing, General Management staff renewed their statements that they never instructed builders to reduce the amount of reinforcing bars.