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Month: May 2008
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Edo-Tokyo museum
My mother recommended me Edo-Tokyo museum and I finally had time to visit it. I liked it a lot, even more than the National Museum. I couldn’t take pictures inside, but this is a picture of the building I took other day. It looks like it was designed by a Star Wars artist!
Next the museum you can watch sumo fighting, it’s a good place to spend one day. Access information for the Edo-Tokyo museum.
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100 million super-mega-region
My brother recommended me Richard Florida’s blog a while ago. It happened that while I was in Hamburg last week, Richard Florida was also there and he was talking in the same conference as Danny. My brother bought one of his books after the conference, Who’s your city. I’ll talk more about this interesting book in other posts, but right now I just wanted to featured this paragraph about Japan’s overpopulation.
Greater Tokyo, home to more than 55 million people and responsible for nearly 2.5 trillion in economic output, is the world’s biggest mega, with world-class strengths in finance, design, and high technology. The second Japanese mega-region, stretching for Osaka to Nagasaki, is home to 36 million people who generate 1.4 trillion in output. Its niche specialties include high-tech innovation and manufacturing- from automobiles to cutting-edge electronics. Fuku-kyushu houses 18 million people and produces 430 billion in LRP, while Greater Sapporo is home to more than 4 million people producing 200 billion in LRP. The boundaries of Japan’s great mega-regions are already blurring. Much of Japan may be well on its way to becoming the world’s first integrated super-mega-region- a single, gargantuan, and geographically overlapping economic entity of more than 100 million people producing 4.5 trillion in LRP.
In this map the super-mega-region structure can be appreciated, almost all Japan is connected.
Map from Richard Florida’s book, extracted from his website.
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