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Tarc

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3. As much their own fault as it is environmental

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Thu Dec 21, 2017, 11:51 AM

Dec 2017

Corruption, infighting among ethnic and religious rivalries, and so on. As the article notes, Tokyo was facing a similar situation post WWII, and they got super-strict with zoning and regulations and whatnot and turned it around.

Either they do the same or half the city will have to be abandoned in a generation.

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