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Making Tokyo Beautiful for Olympics May Cost $6.8 Billion www.bloomberg.com

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 1 month ago

The company known as Tepco, which faces $144 billion in clean up costs for the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown, has been assigned with removing hundreds of thousands of utility poles across Tokyo so visitors to the 2020 Olympics can enjoy uninterrupted views of its famous cherry blossoms and neon-lit streets.


1 | #12965 by  Tanuki | 8 years, 1 month ago
I am not a big fan of TEPCO, but I think this is going too far. Underground cabling needs more time to be restored after a big earthquake. Laying them too takes more money and time because of the earthquake safety requirements. If 20 million tourists a year can enjoy Japan when there is no olympics, I don't think there is an issue with the cables during Olympics. The current governor is very good at saying and proposing things that make people happy, but I am yet to see anything concrete that actually got done.
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