Word: sprawl
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...minor Tokyo bureaucrat, Senji Kataoka, 53, spends the week doing public relations chores for the Ministry of Agriculture. But every Sunday during the harvest season, he becomes an Oriental Quixote-a tireless crusader against the urban sprawl that is fast destroying Japan's rural beauty. Armed with three cameras, he mounts his Honda and chugs off to perform his duties as president (and sole member) of the Japan Scarecrow Institute. His mission: to save and celebrate scarecrows, "the silent critics of this country's devastating environmental disruptions...
...their safety and property, seek refuge in the suburbs. Suburbanites, afraid to shop downtown, create a demand for more outlying shopping centers, which erode Detroit's appeal even more. What the area's citizens seemingly do not fear is precisely what Doxiadis fears most: continued suburban sprawl...
...muscles. The library is handily placed next to the bar. Every evening there are taped concerts of jazz classics or chamber music, and a pretty Parisienne lectures on painting. Tired tennis players and horsemen and sailors, dressed in bikinis or tennis togs, sarongs or tie-dyed shirts and denims, sprawl beneath the pines, delaying their showers for an hour...
...Sprawl," they said...
Then there are Japan's two ages of discontinuity ? elder and younger. Older Japanese, used to the rigors of life before the boom, find the relative abundance of contemporary Japan confusing and empty. Eight years ago, as Tokyo's sprawl...