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...environment [Oct. 9] provided shocking facts on the pollution and overpopulation of the Indian city of Kanpur and indicated that four of Asia's 10 most polluted cities are in India. The report should be an eye opener for Indians. The dramatic resurgence of the Japanese port of Kitakyushu is inspiring and is surely an environmental role model. Indian cities should implement the Kitakyushu model, as Dalian in China has done, with a commitment to a cleaner future. Let us give a face-lift to the River Ganges like the one Dokai Bay had. Tougher government regulations will leave...
...This is déjà vu, I said to myself when I saw the pictures of a flood of trash floating on a Jakarta river and bike commuters wearing masks to protect themselves from toxic diesel fumes in Kanpur, India. Those are the same scenes we saw in Kitakyushu and other cities in the 1960s and '70s, when Japan was notorious as the archipelago of kogai, or environmental disruption. I was one of the victims of the choking smog at that time. Asians are starting to put more pressure on their governments to tackle staggering environmental problems, but time...
...echo Bryan Walsh's article about the housewives' joint effort in pushing the Kitakyushu government and business sectors to work on pollution. I live on the southern tip of Hong Kong island overseeing the South China Sea. But in recent years, my house's windows oversee smog rather than the nearby outlying islands of Hong Kong. In September, my 4-year-old son suffered from respiratory infection twice and was prevented from going to school. The poor air condition in Hong Kong has reached an alarming level. Fredrick Yip Chi Wing Hong Kong...
...comfort?and when not in use, the middle seat in each row converts into a table. At the moment, the fledgling airline only makes the hour-and-a-half-long trip to Tokyo's domestic Haneda Airport from its home base in the western port city of Kitakyushu, but look out in future for routes to Shanghai and Seoul...
...elemental geometries -- cubes, cylinders -- and natural materials, but he seldom leaves them basic or pure. He pulls together polished granite with curved glass with concrete, and makes columns short and fat, as in his 1971 Sogo Bank building; in a 1974 country club in Oita and a library in Kitakyushu, he makes barrel vaults snake and turn like architecture squeezed from a toothpaste tube...