TOKYO, Aug. 5, 2024–What used to be vast farming fields in Tokyo’s border areas with other provinces are quickly converted into lands of man-made structures — housing, storage depots, parking, and others. That’s how Tokyo is drawing national populations from most other provinces, and as the 12 million citizen city is projected to age fast too, urban desertification is becoming a reality.
Problems of water and power supply, sewage, garbage collection, chronic transportation congestion, small housing and work space, and all other conceivable inconveniences — heat domes in summer — that thus far have been miraculously managed are likely to show up gradually, making Tokyo an unlivable place and the land that holds the most precious property value of Japan empty — unless the city transforms man-made structures into green fields and limit population growth.
The site, which is located near the Tokyo border with Saitama and was a wide farming field, will be converted into a residential building complex.
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