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Tsukiji fish market hold-outs defy demolition orders and trade on

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By Toshifumi Kitamura

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Would have been nice to see a picture of what the article is talking about rather than the new market!

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I do not understand why some foreigners are so much interested in this topic. This is not worth reporting and is not the concern of the general public of Tokyo.

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"It's up to the Tokyo government to discuss the issue with these people and sort out the problem with them,"

No it’s not up to the government. It’s up to the police. These people are trespassers.

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I do not understand why some foreigners are so much interested in this topic. This is not worth reporting and is not the concern of the general public of Tokyo.

I agree it's not really "news", but it's not "foreigners" that are interested in the topic, it's JT wanting to keep "foreigners" interested in it!

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I want to know if shoppers are being allowed into the Tsukiji wholesale area to patronize these holdouts.

This is quite an unexpected turn of events. However, the place is being demolished. Have to admire the holdout's sheer cussedness.

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In the same time, this news was also in the Japanese media and traders are Japanese.

So it’s far from being a foreigner concern

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Yeah, change is scary, isn't it...

I don't think I will ever understand the obsession with this place. It's just a fish market, not a centuries old shrine or castle.

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Just being awkward old men holding out for a better deal.

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which is slated to become a transport hub for the 2020 Olympics.

More like high rise Ginza apartments.

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Interesting that you are allowed to “barge” past an official, remove or pass barriers and then buy and sell...all without the cops being called on you.

Its all fine by me.

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Schopenhauer - I do not understand why some foreigners are so much interested in this topic. This is not worth reporting and is not the concern of the general public of Tokyo.

Many foreigners have lived in japan for many years and care about the goings on in their adopted country. Just because many Japanese people are willing to bury their heads in the sandpit they call a desk does not mean everybody should follow.

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Nice to hear the remaining rats still get nibbles.

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thepersoniamnow:

Interesting that you are allowed to “barge” past an official, remove or pass barriers and then buy and sell...all without the cops being called on you.

That is quite typical of Japanese treatment of political demonstrations. Officials and civilians go extra miles to allow demonstrators to do pretty much whatever they want as long as they do not harm other people or destroy properties.

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Sounds just like the holdouts when Narita airport was being built...

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socrateos

Thanks for the response.

I do feel that say, in relation to a western country, yeah the authorities here are less hands on and allow you more. But I’m Japanese and it still kinda shocks me.

I think that maybe since its such an old market and the people in the stalls have been there for generations sometimes, they are taking it easy on em.

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I do not understand why some foreigners are so much interested in this topic. This is not worth reporting and is not the concern of the general public of Tokyo.

They’re not for the most part! It an article published by JT, not some rando joe blog.

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Sounds just like the holdouts when Narita airport was being built...

Some of those holdouts are still there. That is why the B runway is the length it is, and that the taxiway for it curves towards it (which is why planes cannot land and taxi at the same time). The holdouts are also preventing a third runway from being built.

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Those holdouts know that an irreplaceable site is being replaced by unfeeling Tokyo Met. Government types and Ishihara-gumi. I do not blame them for making a show of a Last Standing.

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The intransigence of old Japanese men cannot be defeated.

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Narita, Okinawa, and now Tsukiji.....

I am a Jeffersonian in this regard: "I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."

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