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Tokyo Achieving Yet Another Major Metamorphosis.
(From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI))
Byline: Imamura Souhei
It has been said that once one could see Mt. Fuji from anywhere in Tokyo on a clear day, but now one can only see it in a few places, if one is lucky, a few times a year. When one looks down on Tokyo from the top floor of a skyscraper, the highlight is the way that the closely packed buildings appear to completely engulf the surface. Although people don't usually notice it on the ground, from up in the air they see that the metropolis is always slightly hazy from exhaust fumes. The optical illusion of a sea of buildings is dizzying: stretching as far as one can see into the hazy ...
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