http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/07/31/japans-sewer-system-fascinating-history/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:31:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/07/31/japans-sewer-system-fascinating-history/#comment-28064 David Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:56:36 +0000 http://www.weirdasianews.com/?p=5799#comment-28064 Not a sewer system. It's a flood prevention system called the G-Cans Project... Not a sewer system. It's a flood prevention system called the G-Cans Project…

]]> http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/07/31/japans-sewer-system-fascinating-history/#comment-21136 Robert Fisher Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:02:25 +0000 http://www.weirdasianews.com/?p=5799#comment-21136 I think much of the underground development in Japan leads to issues with limited land space. Most of the city of Tokyo is land filled ocean. They are only gonna be able to fill in so much of the bay so they have to go underground. When I was in Tokyo, I saw a poster at one of the train stations promoting the idea of an underground city. When I searched only, just now, I found a concept called <a href="http://www.civil.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/jiban/text/concept/con9/alice1.html" target="_blank">Alice City</a> which shows this fully functioning city completely underground. Now that would be amazing! I think much of the underground development in Japan leads to issues with limited land space. Most of the city of Tokyo is land filled ocean. They are only gonna be able to fill in so much of the bay so they have to go underground. When I was in Tokyo, I saw a poster at one of the train stations promoting the idea of an underground city. When I searched only, just now, I found a concept called Alice City which shows this fully functioning city completely underground. Now that would be amazing!

]]> http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/07/31/japans-sewer-system-fascinating-history/#comment-20944 Gordon Luster Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:06:55 +0000 http://www.weirdasianews.com/?p=5799#comment-20944 And yet in my suburban Hiroshima neighborhood, stinking raw effluent from neighborhood homes runs down a little creek and right into an irrigation pond next to a park, a school, an art museum, a dentist's office and several houses. Sometimes I hold my breath to get past it. I guess the people who live and work there are used to it. And yet in my suburban Hiroshima neighborhood, stinking raw effluent from neighborhood homes runs down a little creek and right into an irrigation pond next to a park, a school, an art museum, a dentist's office and several houses. Sometimes I hold my breath to get past it. I guess the people who live and work there are used to it.

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