Tokyo's dead-zone playgrounds go green

[Taro Toporific]

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Tokyo schoolyards to go green
The Yomiuri Shimbun, Nov 18, 2006
The Tokyo metropolitan government has decided to turf the schoolyards of all the capital's primary and middle schools over the next 10 years...The metropolitan government hopes the move will moderate the so-called heat island phenomenon and provide children with an improved environment for outdoor activities. Tokyo's school playgrounds were mostly soil-based until the 1960s, when the trend of covering them with asphalt began....more...

[GuyJean]

..The Tokyo metropolitan government has decided to turf the schoolyards of all the capital's primary and middle schools over the next 10 years...

Ingenious! Is grass on playgrounds a Japanese invention?

GJ

[IkemenTommy]

[quote="GuyJean"]Ingenious! Is grass on playgrounds a Japanese invention? ]
I wonder if it will be [color="Lime"]real grass[/color] or astro-turf.

[Catoneinutica]

I wonder if it will be [color="Lime"]real grass[/color] or astro-turf.

Or perhaps simply green-colored dirt, which seems to be the choice here in Makuhari.

[GuyJean]

I wonder if it will be [color="Lime"]real grass[/color] or astro-turf.

I wondered the same thing. But there's a photo in the article of real grass, so I assume it's the real thing..

GJ

[Samurai_Jerk]

It'd have to be real grass to have an impact on the heat island problem. However, I wonder if there is enough playground space to even make a difference.

[Taro Toporific]

...tthere's a photo in the article of real grass, so I assume it's the real thing...

Japanese science must have genetically engineered some kind of supergrass that withstand the traffic of hundreds of kids playing on the typical Japanese schoolyard, which is the size of the parking area under a love hotel.

[Blah Pete]

Japanese science must have genetically engineered some kind of supergrass that withstand the traffic of hundreds of kids playing on the typical Japanese schoolyard, which is the size of the parking area under a love hotel.

The grass isn't goint to last long with all the kids trampling on it year round. The kiddie baseball teams tend to play year round during rain and snow which will kill the grass. I predict a big mud hole within a year due to mismanagement.
Artificial turf would be the best for schools but it won't help the heat problem.

[GuyJean]

Since all buildings with flat roofs are now required to be 'green zones', why not move the playgounds there?



GJ

[GuyJean]

The grass isn't goint to last long with all the kids trampling on it year round..

Who said the kids would actually be allowed to play on it? I'm sure, in those areas, 'fun' would be restricted..

GJ

[dimwit]

Sounds like good news, but if it is happening in Tokyo now, it'll be about ten years if ever before anything happens out here.

[Taro Toporific]

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Schools in Tokyo ban use of playground sandboxes over radiation fears
The Mainichi Daily News | 2011aug30
A number of schools in Tokyo are banning the use of playground sandboxes or replacing their sand due to radiation fears even though the capital is more than 200 kilometers away from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant.
While there is no government-set standard over the radiation levels in sandboxes, there are reports that levels of radiation exceeding standards set voluntarily by local municipalities have been detected in sandboxes at schools in Tokyo. Local governments and school officials are intensifying their calls on the central government to draw up a safety standard at an early date.
In Tokyo's Katsushika Ward, officials measured atmospheric radiation dosages in 378 sandboxes at kindergartens, elementary and junior high schools and parks in the ward between Aug. 3 and 17 upon requests by residents. As a result, radiation doses in 29 sandboxes surpassed the 0.25 microsieverts per hour level set by the ward as its own safety limit based on the standards drawn up by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) and other organizations...more...:glow:

[IparryU]

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Schools in Tokyo ban use of playground sandboxes over radiation fears
The Mainichi Daily News | 2011aug30
A number of schools in Tokyo are banning the use of playground sandboxes or replacing their sand due to radiation fears even though the capital is more than 200 kilometers away from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant.
While there is no government-set standard over the radiation levels in sandboxes, there are reports that levels of radiation exceeding standards set voluntarily by local municipalities have been detected in sandboxes at schools in Tokyo. Local governments and school officials are intensifying their calls on the central government to draw up a safety standard at an early date.
In Tokyo's Katsushika Ward, officials measured atmospheric radiation dosages in 378 sandboxes at kindergartens, elementary and junior high schools and parks in the ward between Aug. 3 and 17 upon requests by residents. As a result, radiation doses in 29 sandboxes surpassed the 0.25 microsieverts per hour level set by the ward as its own safety limit based on the standards drawn up by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) and other organizations...more...:glow:

had a fight with my wife about this shit yesterday... I told her it is Japan and that's how things are always done.... she got mad and started saying that comment was racist... so i asked her what has japan done for the 3/11 aftermath... she couldn't come up with one thing.

so i told her:
1. USA was issuing iodine at the embassy and New Sanno to USofA passport holders
2. US gunjin helped out with the fukashima stuffs (citation)
3. Japan is having FG scientists come over to evaluate people/location for radiation levels
4. This whole 3/11 shit can be a big step for japan cause it will open up many jobs in the medical field, construction, charity (good for reducing taxes), and motivation for the nipponjin to fight for a better political system so politicians actually... do something.

she went back to the racist card so i just gave up and let her bitch for the next hour... japanese are sooooooo good at debates it is not funny

[Dreamy_Peach]

The grass isn't goint to last long with all the kids trampling on it year round. The kiddie baseball teams tend to play year round during rain and snow which will kill the grass. I predict a big mud hole within a year due to mismanagement.
Artificial turf would be the best for schools but it won't help the heat problem.

Each playground will be attended to by at least one 50 year old man per 7.5 square metre section of grass with baton and megaphone to ensure that people do not play on the grass.

[Coligny]

she went back to the racist card so i just gave up and let her bitch for the next hour... japanese are sooooooo good at debates it is not funny

Yeah... they love that race card...

I got it pulled once...

Ok... it was just after I called one of the neo natalist 'Dr Zaius'...

Even if it was a reference to his total incompetence...

but stll...

[james]

Each playground will be attended to by at least one 50 year old man per 7.5 square metre section of grass with baton and megaphone to ensure that people do not play on the grass.

further reinforcing a prevalent stereotype here that once there's grass on the field you can no longer play ball.

[Samurai_Jerk]

further reinforcing a prevalent stereotype here that once there's grass on the field you can no longer play ball.

Nice one.

[IparryU]

further reinforcing a prevalent stereotype here that once there's grass on the field you can no longer play ball.

then hope it rains so you can play in the mud

[matsuki]

had a fight with my wife about this shit yesterday... I told her it is Japan and that's how things are always done.... she got mad and started saying that comment was racist... so i asked her what has japan done for the 3/11 aftermath... she couldn't come up with one thing.

so i told her:
1. USA was issuing iodine at the embassy and New Sanno to USofA passport holders
2. US gunjin helped out with the fukashima stuffs (citation)
3. Japan is having FG scientists come over to evaluate people/location for radiation levels
4. This whole 3/11 shit can be a big step for japan cause it will open up many jobs in the medical field, construction, charity (good for reducing taxes), and motivation for the nipponjin to fight for a better political system so politicians actually... do something.

she went back to the racist card so i just gave up and let her bitch for the next hour... japanese are sooooooo good at debates it is not funny

Even funnier because, despite what hey believe, Japanese are not a "race." Whether the country is filled with spineless and hive mind clones is up for debate though.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Even funnier because, despite what hey believe, Japanese are not a "race." Whether the country is filled with spineless and hive mind clones is up for debate though.

They are a race if they believe they are a race.

[IparryU]

They are a race if they believe they are a race.

waaaaayyyyy too much self-brainwashing shit having to take place to do that...

that is how japanese become... nipponjin
:bowdown::nihonjin:

[Samurai_Jerk]

waaaaayyyyy too much self-brainwashing shit having to take place to do that...

that is how japanese become... nipponjin
:bowdown::nihonjin:

Race is a social construct that can and does change over time. A group of people are a race if they believe themselves to be one or if another group classifies them as one. Whether or not that jibes with your society's definition of race is irrelevant.

[Coligny]

Race is a social construct that can and does change over time. A group of people are a race if they believe themselves to be one or if another group classifies them as one.

I think it's the textbook definition of "nation"

[Taro Toporific]

...In Tokyo's Katsushika Ward, officials measured atmospheric radiation dosages in 378 sandboxes at kindergartens, elementary and junior high schools and parks in the ward between Aug. 3 and 17 upon requests by residents. As a result, radiation doses in 29 sandboxes surpassed the 0.25 microsieverts per hour level set by the ward as its own safety limit based on the standards drawn up by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP)

Fukushima MUTANT in the playground!

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[Hijinx]

In J-grass-planting tradition, they'll put the grass in and then finish it off with a layer of sand on top.

[Coligny]

In J-grass-planting tradition, they'll put the grass in and then finish it off with a layer of sand concrete on top.

You must be new around here...

[wagyl]

Schools in Tokyo ban use of playground sandboxes over radiation fears
The Mainichi Daily News | 2011aug30, now expunged from the site for old age
In Tokyo's Katsushika Ward, officials measured atmospheric radiation dosages in 378 sandboxes at kindergartens, elementary and junior high schools and parks in the ward between Aug. 3 and 17 upon requests by residents. As a result, radiation doses in 29 sandboxes surpassed the 0.25 microsieverts per hour level set by the ward as its own safety limit based on the standards drawn up by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) and other organizations.

I realise this is well over two and a half years old now but since it was revived by Taro's post...

Damn. I suppose that means that the 修学旅行 to the beaches of Espírito Santo is cancelled, at 80 times that level. No Samba for you!