Tokyo looks to start a chain reaction of MORE CONCRETE!

[Taro Toporific]

Yes! What Tokyo needs is MORE CONCRETE!

Tokyo looks to start chain reaction of urban renewal
Nikkei | 2014 Oct 03
The Japanese government will throw funding and tax relief behind a new approach to thinning out overcrowded residential areas...with idle municipal land. Cities build apartment blocks on such property to serve as new homes for people living in areas designated for redevelopment. Their old homes are then cleared away to create space for new blocks of flats...more...

[wagyl]

Yeah, because slum clearance measures never ever meet with resistance from residents who do not want to move to the new location which was idle because it was inconvenient to transport, shops and employment.