CL <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Koizumi proposed much the same thing in the final year of his
> premiership but, like almost all of his ideas, he never paid attention
> to who would pay for it.  Having worked around Nihonbashi /
> Mitsukoshimae for years, I have continually wondered what that place
> looked like before 1962.  If the photos are any indication, that bridge
> was a very impressive piece of masonry before the kosoku plunged it into
> darkness.

After the "big one" has plunged the rest of the city into darkness as
well, the money will magicaly appear - nothing gets money faster in
Japan than projects involving pouring concrete...

Al