Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some 500 years ago the great Japanese warrior-poet Ota Dōkan built a castle on the marshy fringes of what is today Tokyo Bay. A bustling little town sprang up, and Ota wrote...
Vision or Illusion? With elections scheduled next week in Tokyo-and in thousands of towns, cities and prefectures (states) throughout Japan-pollution has emerged as the capital's No. 1 issue. Socialist Governor Ryokichi Mi-nobe, 67, a scholarly, soft-spoken former economics professor, is pinning his hopes for re-election on the slogan: "Give Tokyo back its blue sky!" His opponent for the governorship (the equivalent of a U.S. mayoralty) is former Police Chief Akira Hatano, 59, a first-time campaigner, hand-picked by Premier Eisaku Sato and his Liberal Democratic Party. Hatano joined the fray with...
...calls for underground channels to accommodate subways, motor vehicles and sewage, plus a series of earthquake-resistant high-rise housing developments linked to commercial centers by superhighways. All would be interlaced with green belts and recreation areas. Hatano's Vision, says Minobe, is an "illusion" that would convert Tokyo into "an inhuman mass of steel and concrete...
Side Effects. Tokyo has never lacked for master plans. The boldest was designed in 1960 by Architect Kenzo Tange, whose ambitious blueprint to extend the city out over Tokyo Bay attracted attention round the world, but was virtually ignored at home. Though never geisha-gracious like Kyoto, its sister city to the southwest, Tokyo has always made up for its lack of physical charm with a sense of rawboned excitement. Its pleasure districts are the gaudiest anywhere. The hub of the nation's cultural life, Tokyo boasts five symphony orchestras, attracts most of the country's artists...
...Attracted by the promise of jobs, thousands upon thousands of rural poor poured into the city, flooding public transportation, cramming the highways and creating a desperate housing shortage. Almost unnoticed, the steel factories, shipyards and chemical works that provided them with jobs befouled the waterways, seashores and air. Commented Tokyo's leading daily, Asahi Shimbun: "Japan has won its economic battle and attained the status of a superpower in G.N.P. only to find that the slogan to which it has been so religiously dedicated means Gross National Pollution...