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5bai Midori, or 5 sided green
In an earlier post, I talked a little about 5bai Midori‘s street beautification products and the creative force behind this small green business Tase Michio. This post uses photos from their website to...
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Kyu Shiba Rikyu Garden
Traditional Japanese garden Kyu Shiba Rikyu dates to 1678 when land reclaimed from Tokyo Bay became the residence of Okugawa Tadatamo, an official of Tokugawa Shogunate. Kyu Shiba Rikyu is one of...
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DPJ and the Environment
As I wrote earlier, the Democratic Party of Japan, which recently won a landslide election, is calling for major environmental changes, including significantly greater carbon emission targets than the...
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Clip-on retrofit of cities
Vanessa Keith has a provocative article about urban reforestation. Rather than focus on new buildings, a small percentage of any city, Keith proposes rebuilding through a “clip-on” to existing urban...
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Fresh flowers in freeway service station
I spotted this very full bouquet in the service station along a highway. Japan’s rest stops are fantastic: huge bathrooms, great variety of food, plus regional food specialities you can purchase for...
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Ginkos in Sendagaya
I go to Sendagaya often to swim in the Olympic pool. The boulevard in front of the Tokyo Gymnasium has beautiful, mature ginko trees. It’s amazing how fast they go from bare poles to lush leafy mass....
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A historic landmark buried under freeway in Tokyo
Approaching by foot or by car, you would not know that up ahead is one of Tokyo’s most famous historic landmarks, Nihonbashi (日本橋, or literally Japan Bridge). During Edo, it was an important wooden...
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One gorgeous tree and 15 lanes of roadway
木が人間の環境をもっと魅力的にしているのでしょうか。それとも、人間の環境が木をもっと魅力的にしているのでしょうか。 Do trees make the human environment more attractive, or do human environments make trees more attractive? On an elevated pedestrian bridge...
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Highway rest stop cherry blossoms. Unlike US, Japanese rest stops are...
きれいな桜がサービスステーションにあります。日本のは米国のより全然違います。 I love this elegant cherry tree in bloom at a highway rest stop. In the background, you can see a row of cherry trees lining the highway. I am rarely a car...
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Onward in Tatsumi, a place for transit
この「Onward」というの看板の前をよく通り過ぎます。都市の端の湾の近くは、倉庫やトラックや高速道路が多いです。 Leaving the Tatsumi Metro station, I cross over one highway on a pedestrian bridge, while passing below several elevated highways intersecting...
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