Vu sur http://www.bangstyle.com/2012/05/yumiko-matsuis-miniature-paper-cities/
Oeuvre de Yumiko Matsui
Le meilleur article en anglais sur la question vient du Japan Times:
By ERIC JOHNSTON
Staff writer
OSAKA — The Osaka Municipal Government was preparing Thursday to take disciplinary action against civil servants who refused to answer a survey on whether they have tattoos, as concern in and out of the city was growing that the questionnaire constituted a human rights violation.
Mayor Toru Hashimoto, who ordered the survey, has already threatened to deny promotions to any of the 33,500 municipal employees who refused to answer it. So far, 110 employees, including over 70 in the environmental department who work as garbage collectors, have admitted to having tattoos.
In the past, municipal sanitation workers typically had backgrounds as day laborers. During the 1970s, large numbers of city sanitation workers were also affiliated with yakuza in Nishinari Ward, a noted day laborer area. Many had tattoos and their successors today appear to be carrying on the tradition.
La suite est ici.
Alexis Orsini, Naoki Urasawa : L'air du temps (2012)
voir le cr de S. Naeco, Naoki Urasawa passé au scanner, Le comptoir de la BD 16 mai 2012.
OSAKA -- The Osaka prefectural and city governments have agreed on plans to accept debris generated by the Great East Japan Earthquake and bury it on a man-made island in Osaka Bay after incinerating it.
The Ministry of the Environment (MOE) is expected to give instructions at the end of the month on measures to prevent radioactive cesium from the debris ash from spreading into the bay. Afterward, the prefectural government will hold a meeting of safety experts and make an official decision on the plans.
The location that will be used to bury the debris ash, situated near Hokuto Port on man-made Yumeshima Island, is also the final disposal spot for the city's waste. Currently, 730,000 square meters of the 3.85 million square meters of Yumeshima is used for waste disposal.
The Osaka Prefectural Government has indicated its intention to take on 180,000 tons of debris from Iwate Prefecture. In December of last year, it set a standard of "100 becquerels or less" of radiation per kilogram of debris, and in January of this year it asked municipalities within the prefecture holding incinerator facilities to take on debris and explained the disposal procedures and standards. However, most of the municipalities are reluctant and worried about protests from residents, and only the city of Osaka has indicated it would agree to the move.
In February, the Osaka Municipal Government asked the MOE to survey the safety of the Hokuko Port disposal area. As the capacity of the area is limited, the prefectural government is aiming for disposal at other sites as well.
May 13, 2012(Mainichi Japan)
L’information la plus complète que j’aie jamais lue en anglais sur Toru Hashimoto, ancien préfet et dorénavant maire d’Osaka, est sur le blog ONTD : The Hashist (or, a quick primer on Toru Hashimoto)
Kokita Kiyohito, Tessa Morris-Suzuki and Mark Selden, Ko Tae Mun, Ko Chung Hee, and the Osaka Family Origins of North Korean Successor Kim Jong Un, The Asia-Pacific Journal Vol 9, Issue 1 No 2, January 3, 2011.
C'est par ici: http://japanfocus.org/-Kiyohito-Kokita/3465
