Question: Not until a 20th-century Western architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, arrived in Tokyo to build the earthquake-resistant Imperial Hotel was it considered possible let alone desirable to attempt to defy the ravages of nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright traveled to Tokyo specifically to prove he could build an earthquake-resistant hotel.

Answer: it is not possible to tell

Question: (Is it my imagination, though, or have those lips become even more pillowy?
The lips look the same as always to me.

Answer: no

Question: Now came the time for a mini-device preventing the development of symptoms of psycho-motor aggression.
They used a device to prevent the symptoms from developing any further.

Answer:
yes