A stink about Tsukiji's move

[matsuki]

Next thing you know she'll come out against utility poles.

I can almost hear the jiji teeth sucking from here...

[Coligny]

Next thing you know she'll come out against utility poles.

That's not nice to make fun of lesbians...

[Yokohammer]

That's racist. Some of my best friends are Polish.

And yes, utility poles too. She has stated that she wants to make Tokyo fireproof and get the wiring underground to facilitate firefighting and rescue operations in a disaster. As we all know, that's a "when," not an "if."

If she wasn't a Nippon Kaigi member I might actually like her.

[yanpa]

That's racist. Some of my best friends are Polish.

And yes, utility poles too. She has stated that she wants to make Tokyo fireproof and get the wiring underground to facilitate firefighting and rescue operations in a disaster. As we all know, that's a "when," not an "if."

If she wasn't a Nippon Kaigi member I might actually like her.

For the ignorant (self included) among us: Nippon Kaigi

[Coligny]

That's racist. Some of my best friends are Polish.

And yes, utility poles too. She has stated that she wants to make Tokyo fireproof and get the wiring underground to facilitate firefighting and rescue operations in a disaster. As we all know, that's a "when," not an "if."

If she wasn't a Nippon Kaigi member I might actually like her.

For the ignorant (self included) among us: Nippon Kaigi

So they are basically a seditionist terrorist group of dubious legality ?
Like the ill00minaties but without the positive aspects.

or a national level suicide club...
Trying to fuckup japan with an historical reanactement.
(go full retard nationalist. start war. lose war... cry foul...)

[wuchan]

That's racist. Some of my best friends are Polish.

And yes, utility poles too. She has stated that she wants to make Tokyo fireproof and get the wiring underground to facilitate firefighting and rescue operations in a disaster. As we all know, that's a "when," not an "if."

If she wasn't a Nippon Kaigi member I might actually like her.

For the ignorant (self included) among us: Nippon Kaigi

So they are basically a seditionist terrorist group of dubious legality ?
Like the ill00minaties but without the positive aspects.

or a national level suicide club...
Trying to fuckup japan with an historical reanactement.
(go full retard nationalist. start war. lose war... cry foul...)

That's part of their story.

If you look into it a bit more and the people that are members, a trend emerges. A large majority of the members are from families that had wealth and power back in the Meji era or are third/fourth generation politicians. One of their goals is to "restore order". What does that even fucking mean? Isn't Japan "safety country" with extremely low crime, murder and drug addiction rates? Well, these long established families have acquired some company in the top tax bracket in the form of "commoners" that have been successful under the "foreign imposed idea" free market open equally to all. Many of the members are men who's wives wear kimono often as a symbol of their status.

In short, the old guard wants total power again.

[kurogane]

That summary was short, sharp and shocking. Well done. I will also add that a bigger problem isn't that they like that delusional, self-serving BS, but that many of the people that vote do too. People are tired and angry, even thugh shiite isn't that bad and that crap isn't the solution. But if YuriYuri will bury that rat's nest of power lines and question the size and depth of the pork barrels I will keep an eye out but hold my nose. As a relevant political example, the now very, very ex-PM Darth Harper of Calgary and Ottawa was a perfectly good PM for most of his tenure, which is easy to forget because he lost his diaper pins at the end. Without drowning it in Maple Syrup Fever, I wonder if the political trends we are seeing around the First World have not been played out first in Canada: we tried going right in 2006, held our noses as long as we could until we finally choked, and then chucked the bastards out and went back to PM fuzzy wuzzy and his merry band of pseudo-lefty Care Bears. And it's looking good so far, and it feels much nicer.

PS I just Google Imaged her: I would totally break my age rule for a walk on the wild side. Racist nationalist chicks are tigers. ROARRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[Samurai_Jerk]

I undersand why she'd want to postpone the move and look not only into the pollution issue but possible corruption. I also recognize that she just came to power and wasn't necessarily able to do anything about it sooner. However, it has to be really frustrating for the vendors and buyers at Tsukuji who I'm sure have already spent plenty of time and money preparing for something that's supposed to have happened very soon.

[Coligny]

That summary was short, sharp and shocking. Well done. I will also add that a bigger problem isn't that they like that delusional, self-serving BS, but that many of the people that vote do too. People are tired and angry, even thugh shiite isn't that bad and that crap isn't the solution. But if YuriYuri will bury that rat's nest of power lines and question the size and depth of the pork barrels I will keep an eye out but hold my nose. As a relevant political example, the now very, very ex-PM Darth Harper of Calgary and Ottawa was a perfectly good PM for most of his tenure, which is easy to forget because he lost his diaper pins at the end. Without drowning it in Maple Syrup Fever, I wonder if the political trends we are seeing around the First World have not been played out first in Canada: we tried going right in 2006, held our noses as long as we could until we finally choked, and then chucked the bastards out and went back to PM fuzzy wuzzy and his merry band of pseudo-lefty Care Bears. And it's looking good so far, and it feels much nicer.

PS I just Google Imaged her: I would totally break my age rule for a walk on the wild side. Racist nationalist chicks are tigers. ROARRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

cougars no ?

[yanpa]

That summary was short, sharp and shocking. Well done. I will also add that a bigger problem isn't that they like that delusional, self-serving BS, but that many of the people that vote do too. People are tired and angry, even thugh shiite isn't that bad and that crap isn't the solution. But if YuriYuri will bury that rat's nest of power lines and question the size and depth of the pork barrels I will keep an eye out but hold my nose. As a relevant political example, the now very, very ex-PM Darth Harper of Calgary and Ottawa was a perfectly good PM for most of his tenure, which is easy to forget because he lost his diaper pins at the end. Without drowning it in Maple Syrup Fever, I wonder if the political trends we are seeing around the First World have not been played out first in Canada: we tried going right in 2006, held our noses as long as we could until we finally choked, and then chucked the bastards out and went back to PM fuzzy wuzzy and his merry band of pseudo-lefty Care Bears. And it's looking good so far, and it feels much nicer.

PS I just Google Imaged her: I would totally break my age rule for a walk on the wild side. Racist nationalist chicks are tigers. ROARRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

cougars no ?

Nope, definitely pussy in the jungle.

[kurogane]

At my age cougars are also pensioners. And even when I was a 40dumbthing, other than the racist nationalist chicks it was a bit much. Why eat week old hamburger when you can have steak fresh off the bone? (Hoping for a Legion retort....)
But racist pooper is always worth it, I will give you that much. Closest shiite to porn I have ever been involved with.

Shiro ga sugggggggooooiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
tte

SJ,
Yes, well put. It still smells like a jurisdictional circle jerk, though the environmental assessment issue is legit, and she seems pretty legit on the environmental issue. I know lots of righty old schoolers that wash their take out containers, to be fair

[Taro Toporific]

2016年10月15日 8時39分
http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/12148989/
豊洲市場で国の指針値最大7倍の水銀検出 15日の専門家会議で公表

Tokyo authorities detect levels of mercury that are seven times higher than the standard that is "acceptable" at the Toyosu Deathfish Market.

[kurogane]

Mercury???? The temperature on this one is rising, to be sure. I bet the fax mail circles are burning up the phone lines as we speak.

[dimwit]

Well I personally won't visit Toyosu until I am assured that their lead and cadmium levels are least double to legal limits. While the mercury is a good sign, nothing improves petrochemical pollution quite like heavy metal contaiminents.

[TennoChinko]

It's strange to hear of these so-called 'new' revelations in spite of clear evidence produced by Asahi Shimbun back in 2008, 2009 ... that got soundly ignored by everyone in the gov't, rest of the media and public at large about extreme levels of pollutants already documented...

When it came back into the news this year, it was as if people were hearing it for the first time. Back then, tests indicated that benzene levels alone were something like 43,000 TIMES the maximum level - -plus since it was a natural gas plant owned and operated by TOKYO GAS, it was known that there was a whole chemical and heavy metal stew including Mercury, Cadmium ...Arsenic, Cyanide... yet, the Tokyo Metropolitan Gov't under ISHIHARA (whom like Hillary who has indicated it at least 20 times , claims he "cannot remember.") bought it at full maxed out market price! The Sankei at the time indicated "so what?"

So, initially this year when the reportage was renewed, it was shocking to see how the TV reporters really did not have a clue... all they really believed was that benzene levels were '35% above maximum levels' ... and with no clue about the 43,000 TIMES benzene levels previously recorded nor memory of the other toxic goodies, we saw them taking deep sniffs of liquid samples, playing with it with their fingers and commenting how slippery it was...

Then the bit about Arsenic came out and this week, Mercury... I feel like I am some fucking time traveller watching this happen ..

Here is a shot of a test report that came out at the time ... where someone from Tokyo Metropolitan Gov't helpfully blacked out the long list of toxic contaminants and their levels with a magic marker...


All these revelations, not on 2ch or some shukan but the admittedly leftwing but mainstream Asahi Shimbun were put out there, but seriously everyone ignored it as if it never happened. Even an international science magazine NATURE thought it was weird:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110118070 ... s=news_rss

Published online 26 April 2010 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2010.199

Missing data spark fears over land clean-up
Proposed home for world's largest fish market is contaminated land.
David Cyranoski

A row has broken out in Tokyo over the proposed relocation of the world's largest fish market. Soil at the new site contains dangerous levels of toxic chemicals and critics claims that the local government is suppressing key data detailing its clean-up efforts.

The local government launched trials to clean up the site on Tokyo bay in January. It released a report last month stating that the tests had been successful, but some local politicians in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly say the report omits crucial data, making it impossible to judge how well the tests worked. On 15 April, these critics — assembly members from the Japanese Communist Party — demanded that the data be released, but they were rebuffed by city authorities last Thursday.

The Tokyo Central Wholesale Market handles more than 2,000 tonnes of fish and other seafood each day. But the 75-year-old facility is cramped and beset by parking and transportation problems. There are also fears that it would not survive an earthquake.

Plans to move the market from its current 23-hectare site in Tsukiji to a larger 40-hectare location in Toyosu about 2 kilometres further east on the Tokyo bay were approved more than a decade ago. But soil surveys at the new site, formerly home to a gas plant, showed high levels of seven toxic chemicals including arsenic, benzene and cyanide. A survey in 2008 found that soil benzene levels in one area were 43,000 times higher than the levels considered to be safe by national law.

Clean sweep

Tokyo's governor, Shintaro Ishihara, has vowed to push forward with the move nonetheless, and the city started testing various detoxification methods earlier this year. These include breaking down chemicals in the soil using heat or microorganisms, digging up and washing the soil with an agitation device to remove chemicals, and pumping out groundwater to a processing plant. The city plans to spend ¥58.6 billion (US$630 million) to clean up the site.

These methods work, but not all the time and not always with the same efficacy in all places, says Tatemasa Hirata, a groundwater pollution expert and director of Wakayama University in western Japan. Factors such as the amount of rain and the size of soil particles can affect the rate at which the ground can be cleaned. "The soil there is different from the soil here and elsewhere," says Hirata, who chaired the committee that carried out the 2008 survey.

The tests are scheduled to run throughout June, and on 10 March, the city released an interim report claiming that two methods — heating and washing — reduced toxic chemical concentrations to within the recommended safety levels at test sites. In particular, the heating method successfully reduced benzene concentrations from 430 milligrams per litre to 0.003 milligrams per litre.

Nobuo Yoshida, a Japanese Communist Party representative and Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly member, states that there were holes in the data. He says that the success was based on a comparison between results made after the clean-up experiments in January and the survey results taken in 2008, which had been made using a different sampling method. Instead, he says, results should have been compared with data taken immediately before and after the experiments, using the same methods and at precisely the same sites. At a budgetary meeting of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly on 11 March, the day after the release of the interim report, Yoshida drew attention to the inconsistency but was told only that "the pre-experiment data could not be released".

Like with like

The following day, the Japanese Communist Party filed an information disclosure request, and on 26 March received documents containing a table of the experimental results for seven plots, including the area where the highest concentrations of benzene had been found. But the pre-test concentrations for all sites appeared to have been crossed out by hand with a thick marker pen.

"How can we know if the methods are working if you don't see results before and after?" Yoshida says.

In a letter on 15 April to Ishihara and Itaru Okada, the head of the fish market, the Japanese Communist Party demanded that the city immediately release pre-test data for the heating and washing methods, explain why results from other tests had not been released and submit all the data to external experts for independent evaluation.

But on 22 April, Okada sent a reply indicating that the pre-experiment results would not be released until all of the tests were concluded in June and then verified with their own experts.

Haruhiro Yamagata, a representative of the metropolitan government planning division overseeing the preparation of the new site, says that the pre-experiment data were omitted because they did not match data found in 2008 and that the difference might have confused people. "We have an obligation to explain matters to the public in a way that is easy to understand," he says.

Yamagata says that the city is now checking with specialists, whom he declined to name, to determine the best way to explain the differences. In response to a query from Nature, he acknowledged that the pre-test figures could have been included with a footnote indicating that the inconsistency had been noted.

Yoshida, however, wants answers now. "If the figures from January 2010 are much lower than in 2008, they have to explain why. And they also have to explain whether the test results are still valid," says Yoshida. "We need to know whether they are working at the areas where the chemicals are in the highest concentrations."

But wait there's more...!

Missing data spark fears over land clean-up

A 26 March document had crucial data blotted out with a marker pen.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100821122 ... box/1.html


And, stuff in Japanese with links to those stories that aren't so old:

http://ameblo.jp/garbanzo04/entry-10601011695.html
http://archive.is/2z4dk

On Dr Fumio HARASHIMA 原島 文雄 [ Note that this fucker is still alive ... and at the time was the chief pundit in charge...now the news keeps citing HIRATA as if HARASHIMA never existed.... unless he got 'POA'd'/'suicided', it's strange how it's now as if he never even existed ]
http://archive.is/PwzR2

eg [[2008年]]8月 - [[豊洲新市場]]予定地の[[土壌汚染]]対策工事に関する技術会議座長([[2008年]]8月-)

- did you notice his online profile has suddenly been taken down?
http://homepage3.nifty.com/Fumio-H/temp ... ASHIMA.htm [deadlink]
http://archive.is/j6fJB
https://web.archive.org/web/20130820054 ... ASHIMA.htm

FUMIO HARASHIMA SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Professor Fumio Harashima, Dr-Eng
President, Tokyo Metropolitan University
1-1　Minami-Osawa Hachioji-Shi, Tokyo
192-0397, JAPAN

E: harashima-fumio@tmu.ac.jp
W: http://www.tmu.ac.jp

　

Fumio Harashima was born in Tokyo in 1940. He has received B.S., and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees all in Electrical Engineering from University of Tokyo in 1962, 1964 and 1967, respectively. He was employed as Associate Professor at Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo in 1967, and had been Professor from 1980 through 1998. He was Director of the Institute from 1992 to 1995. He was President of Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology since April, 1998 through March, 2002. He was also Visiting Professor at KAIST(Korea) for 2002-2003.
Dr. Harashima served as President of Tokyo Denki University from June, 2004 through June, 2008. He is currently President of Tokyo Metropolitan University.
Professor Harashima is Professor Emeritus of University of Tokyo since May, 2000.

His research interests are in power electronics, mechatronics and robotics. He is a co-author of four books and has published over 1,000 technical papers in these areas. He has been active in various academic societies such as Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan (SICE), Robotics Society of Japan and IEEE. He has served as President of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society in 1986-1987, and 1990 IEEE Secretary. He was also a member of IEEE N&A Committee in 1991-1992, and IEEE Fellow Committee in 1991-1993. He served as Founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics in 1995. He was Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics in 2000-2003. He served as President of IEE of Japan in the year 2001-2002.
Dr. Harashima was a member of Science Council of Japan in 2005-2008.

Dr. Harashima has received a number of awards including 1978 SICE Best Paper Award, 1983 IEE of Japan Best Paper Award, 1984 IEEE/IES Anthony J. Hornfeck Award, 1988 IEEE/IES Eugene Mittelmann Award and IEEE Third Millennium Medal. He is a Fellow in IEEE, SICE. and RSJ.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

RESEARCH FIELD

1967- Present: Power Electronics and Electrical Drives

1970- Present: Motion Control and Mechatronics

1985- Present: Intelligent Mechatronics


AWARDS (selected)

1978 SICE Best Paper Award
1983 Best Paper Award, IEE of Japan
1984 IEEE Anthony J. Hornfeck Award
1988 IEEE Fellow
1988 IEEE Eugene Mittelman Outstanding Achievement Award
1990 SICE Fellow
1993 IEE of Japan Industry Application Society, Outstanding Contribution Award 　
2000 IEEE Third Millennium Medal
2003 Outstanding Achievement Award, IEE of Japan
2005 Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques(Republic of France)
2005 Fellow, Robotics Society of Japan
2009 IEEE Life Fellow
2009 The ACA Wook Hyun Kwon Education Award 2009
2009 Fellow, The Japan Federation of Engineering Societies(JFES)
2010 Honorary Memer, the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan
2010 Outstanding Achievement Award, Robotics Soiety of Japan


HARASHIMA AWARDS

１．”Fumio Harashima Mechatronics Award”、Institute of Control and Automation Engineers　（Korea)　2003−

２．”Fumio Harashima Best Paper Award"、IEEE　International Confrence on Emerging Technology and Factory Automation、2005−

３．”IROS　Fumio Harashima Award”、IEEE/RSJ　International Conference on Intelligent Robot and Systems、2006−


　
MAJOR ACTIVITIES IN ACADEMIC SOCIETIES

1984-85 Member, Board of Directors, IEE of Japan
1985-86 IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Vice President　　
1986-1987 IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, President
1990 IEEE Board of Directors, Member
1990 IEEE Executive Committee, Member
1990 IEEE Secretary
1990-1991Member, Board of Directors, Robotics Society of Japan
1992 President, Industry Applications Society of IEE of Japan
1995-96 Founding Editor-in-chief, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
1999-2002 IEEE Award Board, Member
2000 President-Elect, IEE of Japan
2001- 2003 Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
2001-2002 President, IEE of Japan
2005- 2008 Member, Science Council of Japan


INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

Professor Harashima has initiated and organized a number of well-known international conferences. Some of them are listed below.

IPEC: International Power Electronics Conference
1983 Program Chair
1990 Organizing Chair
1995 Honorary Organizing Chair

IEEE/IECON: 1984 General chair

IEEE/IROS: Intelligent Robot and Systems
1988-present: Honorary Organizing Chair

IEEE/IJCNN: International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
1994 Honorary Organizing Chair

IEEE/ICRA: International Conference on Robotics and Automation
1995 Organizing Chair

IEEE/SMC: International Conference on System, Man and Cybernetics
1999 Organizing Chair

IEEE/ITS: International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems
1999 Organizing Chair

IEEE/IECON' 2000: Honorary Organizing Chair

2016 NEWS
https://web.archive.org/web/20160509075 ... m/Fumio-H/
http://archive.is/ehuxq

I saw aside from the Communist paper there was an article in one of the Shukan ... but clearly this information isn't too vague nor unsubstantiated for mainstream ...

解除できるのか 豊洲“時限爆弾”
豊洲「盛り土」提言を無視 新会議を立ち上げた真犯人は？
2016年9月14日
http://www.nikkan-gendai.com/articles/view/news/189779
http://archive.is/EuvCo
http://archive.is/EbMx2
http://archive.is/jLLb9

移転を覆う闇が、かすかに晴れてきた。各売り場棟地下に適切な「盛り土」が行われなかった豊洲新市場の土壌汚染対策は、もともと０７年５月に当時の石原知事が平田健正・放送大学和歌山学習センター所長を座長とする「専門家会議」を設置。会議は翌０８年７月まで計９回開催し、敷地全体に盛り土をするよう提言をまとめ解散した。

　その直後の０８年８月に、都は専門家会議の提言をいかに実現すべきかを検討する「技術会議」（座長＝原島文雄・首都大学東京前学長）を発足させた。わざわざ新たな組織を作ったのはなぜか。

　豊洲の土壌汚染問題を長年追及する日本環境学会元会長の畑明郎氏はこう言う。

「専門家会議には、平田氏をはじめ、土壌汚染対策の現場に精通したメンバーが名を連ね、相当厳格な対策を提言していました。彼らの提言通りに対策工事を行うと、１０００億円以上の費用がかかることが予想された。都は『高すぎる』と慌てたのでしょう。専門家会議の提言を“骨抜き”にするために、新会議を設立したのではないか」

　技術会議は１４年１１月までに計１８回開かれた。都のホームページに掲載されている過去の議事録を見ると、都の職員と技術会議の委員の間で、「地下空間の有効活用」について議論されたことが分かる。

　０８年１１月の第６回会議で配られた資料には「建物建設地については、汚染土壌の処理後、埋め戻しは行わず、この部分の地下空間を利用する」と記されていた。専門家会議において「揮発性有機化合物が建物内に入る恐れがあるため、地下施設を造らない方がよい」と指摘したことさえ問題視。提言の実現という発足のタテマエすら逸脱していた。同月の第７回会議では、委員のひとりが「例えば地下に駐車場を造ると、他の駐車場が必要なくなる」と発言していた。

　ただ、全１８回の議事録からは、地下空間の使途を結論付ける記載が見当たらない。


　１２日、都庁で会見した共産党都議団の尾崎あや子氏は、「なぜ、いつ、誰が専門家会議の提言から逸脱し、盛り土を行わないことを決めたのか。技術会議の過去の議事録を精査しても、決定プロセスが分からなかった。小池知事に事実解明と公表を求める」と訴えていた。

技術会議の提案通りなら、当初費用は６００億円にも満たないことが想定された。その後、諸経費がかさみ約８６０億円に膨らんだが、都は工事費をケチるため、技術会議を設立したのではないでしょうか。地下空間についても、工事費をケチった結果である可能性があります」（畑明郎氏）

　専門家会議を解散させ、技術会議を立ち上げて地下空間について議論させた人物こそ“真犯人”に違いない。果たして、小池知事は闇を暴くことができるのか。

... it still makes me think that maybe I'm the crazy one ...

Everyone knew the fucking land was contaminated given its use by TOKYO GAS...
yet when the Asahi Shimbun [ not some tabloid or 2ch rumor ] came out with not just the contamination data BUT the fact that TOKYO METROPOLITIAN GOVT paid FULL market price for the land ... why there STILL isn't any significant level of "WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED?!!!" is puzzling.

Motive, reason, etc.?

JIAGE / LANDSHARKING
The land that Tsukiji occupies is adjacent to one of the most expensive neighborhoods in Tokyo....GINZA. Just take a look at any satellite photo or one of those cute dioramas of Tokyo like at the MORI ART MUSEUM in Roppongi Hills... Tsukiji with its low-lying drab warehouses sticks out like a sore thumb. That's your motive for the decision to move Tsukiji ... and it's likely ISHIHARA and his crew [ ISHIHARA was GOV from 1999-2012 ...out of commission in last few years due to the 'secret strokes' ; INOSE was Vice GOV from 2007 to 2012 and GOV for one glorious year thereafter] got handsomely compensated for that decision.

That plus a definite kickback for generously paying TOKYO GAS full market price for the TOYOSU land even though it was fully known it was completely contaminated from nearly the beginning but even reports in press from 2001... in 2011 less than a month after 3/11, the Tokyo Metropolitan Gov't bought the 105,193m2 of land from TOKYO GAS for JPY 56 billion [ or around $650 million at the time ] And, it's hard not to

Tokyo purchases Toyosu fish market site for Y56bn
https://web.archive.org/web/20161015131 ... 06/546836/

It's hard not to believe that ISHIHARA and Company didn't score from that one before leaving office.

One of the reasons for the failure to actually do the soil remediation ... distraction & changing of the guard(s). I have copies of a Japanese company that boasted they would get the whole contract for decontaminating the 12,000 tsubo parcel of contaminated soil and water for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government using their yet to be tested proprietary patent /patent-pending technology ...when nothing happened, I assumed it was b/c another firm won the bid. Now I know that it was a combination of the MINSHUTO in power , changing of the Tokyo Governorship (plus while ISHIHARA was still GOV, his AWOL status due to the stroke) ...that caused it to get swept under the carpet. Probably the 3/11 crisis didn't help. (btw the FUKUSHIMA rubble just isn't at the CHUO breakwater* ... any geiger counter and samples will show significant levels of our good friend Cesium-kun).

* http://archive.is/cGMcp

From November 8, 2011, Tokyo City began accepting rubble from the Tohoku disaster. This rubble will be processed at various incinerating plants in Tokyo and, provided it is under the imposed radiation levels, will be used as landfill to create new man-made islands Tokyo Bay. Cesium levels will be measured twice – once before it leaves the depot in the Tohoku region, and once when it arrives in Tokyo. If the levels are below 8,000 becquerel per kilogram, it will be disposed of in the Chuo Breakwater Island in Tokyo Bay (a new island just south of Odaiba). Tokyo will be accepting 500,000 tons of rubble from Iwate and Miyagi Prefectures until the end of 2013.

GOV Koike monitored Tsukiji issues as Environment Minister from 2003 to 2006... as far as I know, a lot of the activity on fucking with Tsukiji and getting them to move to Toyosu started after that....so, it's not too hard to figure out where she might have a righteous stake in getting to the bottom of this (although I'm skeptical anyone will really do so...)

[Russell]

Wow, didn't know that. This is really shocking.

[Taro Toporific]

Well I personally won't visit Toyosu until I am assured that their lead and cadmium levels are least double to legal limits. While the mercury is a good sign, nothing improves petrochemical pollution quite like heavy metal contaiminents.

death-metal-sushi.jpg

Since maguro sushi is already has mercury, Toyosu will help add to the flavor.

Excessive mercury found in air samples from new wholesale market
The Japan Times | Oct. 15, 2016
Mercury at 5 to 7 times the national air quality standard was found in air samples from the basement of a building at the wholesale market built to replace Tokyo’s famed Tsukiji fish market, the metropolitan government said Saturday.
An analysis of air samples taken in the basement of the fruit section of the new market in late September and early this month showed the air contained 0.20-0.28 micrograms of mercury per cubic meter, according to officials.
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[matsuki]

Cheat for extra umami?

In a perfect world, Blinky et al would be held liable for both negligence and whatever they could nail them for on bribery...

[legion]

Cheat for extra umami?

In a perfect world, Blinky et al would be held liable for both negligence and whatever they could nail them for on bribery...

I think Blinky's motivation went beyond mere money, these guys are egoists of the first order, they want to leave a big mark on the map.

As a tax payer this issue pisses me off because it is distracting Koike from turning her beady eye on the Olympic farce. Hope she has enough hours in the day.

[kurogane]

Yes to that, esp. about his motivations. This is about legacy not money, and it's all getting fishier and fishier.

[dimwit]

Yes to that, esp. about his motivations. This is about legacy not money, and it's all getting fishier and fishier.

Dreadful pun aside, for him it is about the legacy but you want to find the malfesance follow the money trail. The Gomiuri seems to be trying to mimimalize the scandal so I am assume that a fair number of LDP members from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government got their kickbacks for green lighting this fiasco.

[TennoChinko]

Don't be surprised if it ends up with TOYOSU being the site for a new casino (the lobbyists prefer the word "integrated resort" and in the US when lobbying for additional casinos where it's clearly overweight ... the misleading word "destination resort" ... implying to people in places like Philly that if they allow a casino, suddenly people who normally go to Las Vegas will make an excuse to visit Philadelphia)

Is the end near for Earth’s biggest fish market?
http://archive.is/SXQgo#selection-1059.0-1059.48

小池都知事に移転中止の秘策 「豊洲カジノ化計画」急浮上
http://www.nikkan-gendai.com/articles/view/news/191016
http://archive.is/3shh0

「カジノ法案」成立間近!? 安倍首相とパチンコ大手の“思惑”
https://news.nifty.com/article/domestic ... 205-24858/
http://archive.is/AxQwB


「ガセネタ乱舞」でお馴染みの森山高至さんが「豊洲をカジノに」などと適当な論をブッこいてる件
http://blogos.com/article/193246/
http://archive.is/zVEME

[wuchan]

Don't be surprised if it ends up with TOYOSU being the site for a new casino (the lobbyists prefer the word "integrated resort" and in the US when lobbying for additional casinos where it's clearly overweight ... the misleading word "destination resort" ... implying to people in places like Philly that if they allow a casino, suddenly people who normally go to Las Vegas will make an excuse to visit Philadelphia)

Is the end near for Earth’s biggest fish market?
http://archive.is/SXQgo#selection-1059.0-1059.48

小池都知事に移転中止の秘策 「豊洲カジノ化計画」急浮上
http://www.nikkan-gendai.com/articles/view/news/191016
http://archive.is/3shh0

「カジノ法案」成立間近!? 安倍首相とパチンコ大手の“思惑”
https://news.nifty.com/article/domestic ... 205-24858/
http://archive.is/AxQwB


「ガセネタ乱舞」でお馴染みの森山高至さんが「豊洲をカジノに」などと適当な論をブッこいてる件
http://blogos.com/article/193246/
http://archive.is/zVEME

Didn't the casino idea die when they did that study that revealed that Japan has a gambling addiction rate four times higher than the global average?