Japanese Government Considers Building ‘Back-Up’ Tokyo

November 3rd, 2011

Via: Wired:

The Japanese government has unveiled radical plans to build a standby city for Tokyo’s political functions to move to in the event of a disabling earthquake or other natural disaster.

The back-up city, which has been codenamed IRTBBC (Integrated Resort, Tourism, Business and Backup City) will sit 300 miles west of Tokyo on the site of Itami Airport, which is politically unpopular and has been largely superceded by other airports, including Kansai and Kobe.

The site, which is approximately five square kilometres in area, will contain facilities for parliament and ministries, so that government will be able to continue in the event of a disaster. However it will also include office complexes, resort facilities, casinos and parks, as well as a 652-metre-high office building.

The infrastructure has been planned for a population of 50,000 residents (which we should note is some way short of Tokyo’s population of 13 million) and a workforce of 200,000 — most of whom will commute from Osaka, Japan’s second city, which the site lies to the north of.

Hajime Ishii, a member of Japan’s ruling Democratic Party, said during the public launch of the project: “The idea is being able to have a back-up, a spare battery for the functions of the nation.”

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5 Responses to “Japanese Government Considers Building ‘Back-Up’ Tokyo”

  1. Miraculix says:
    November 3, 2011 at 1:48 pm

    One wonders, how proximal (or not) is the new “back-up city” site to any nuclear facilities?

  2. Drunken Economist says:
    November 3, 2011 at 11:07 pm

    Art imitates life. Google “Neon Genesis Evangelion.”

    Now all it needs is a GeoFront and the circle is complete.

    E tu predictive programming?

    (Actually, being the only country to be nuked TWICE in war has spawned a thriving apocalypse art/culture/dystopia over there)

  3. Kevin says:
    November 4, 2011 at 8:16 am

    I was expecting multiple Gojira references…

  4. tochigi says:
    November 4, 2011 at 2:35 pm

    the greater tokyo conurbation has a population of 33 million. are they expecting a die-off or a kill-off?

  5. tochigi says:
    November 4, 2011 at 2:39 pm

    btw, they stuff their bs “state functions” where the sun don’t shine. we don’t need them or want them. f**k ’em. F**k the lot of them. the Japanese state is a gigantic scam of nucleocracy and bankster controlled stooges and their todai-addled technocrats

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