Comments on: TAMING TYPHOONS: Incredible Storm Water System in Japan

By: carwaterguide.blogspot.com

carwaterguide.blogspot.com — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:54:44 +0000

I’m excitedly waiting all the changes in technology and availability of vehicles in the near future!!!

By: JCD57

JCD57 — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:05:41 +0000

I have lived in Japan for 10 years. The fact is that the Japanese have been forced to be more resourceful than other people because of the lack of land and natural resources available to them.
As for being smarter than anyone else, it is simply not true. However, they do make better use of their funds than other countries do.
This yellow race crap is really stupid, leafpure, because of the amount of underdeveloped countries in Asia. Talk about biased.
The people in Japan envy the people in the USA because of their individualism, which many of them do not enjoy because of cultural traditions. However, they enjoy being Japanese.

By: sic

sic — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:36:39 +0000

If anyone has read “Dogs and Demons” by Alex Kerr, you will know why the Japanese government has to find reasons to embark on ambitious yet palpably unnecessary projects such as this one. Admittedly, I do not have the analysis to hand, but would hazard a guess that this is a vastly over-engineered solution to a hardly-ever-witnessed scenario.

@leafpure: as much as I love Japan (I am currently living in Tokyo), I’m sorry, but perhaps you should reconsider your rather rose-tinted point of view..

@brunda, mia: I would imagine it was fairly horrendous, but that is not high on the list of the government’s priorities.. They just want to lay down concrete. Wherever, whenever.

By: Mia

Mia — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:02:49 +0000

Like Brunda, I’d want to know what the ecological impacts of this are. What happens to all that water? Is it discharged into the ocean? Run off often often contains pollutants from lawn fertilizers, motor oil and other things that harm the marine environment. Is it recycled as greywater, or treated and used as a municipal water resource?

The gargantuan size is impressive, but the project would be more so if it took a more holistic view.

By: Brunda Ganesh

Brunda Ganesh — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:21:15 +0000

I was wondering since its featured here….what is the overall ecological impact (construction and post construction also) of something like this?. Its great that there are countries willing to go to such extents in disaster management, but is something like this the only solution?.

By: incontrovertible.one

incontrovertible.one — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:48:16 +0000

Awesome, just booked my tour in September! Hope it’s dry enough to go down there.

By: Dilgepwent

Dilgepwent — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:08:43 +0000

A movie was shot here i think. One of the Die Hard movies with Bruce Willis involved a chase scene to get to an explosive located (i think) in these tunnels. That would have been the late 90’s but some of these pictures are too familiar.

By: SPG

SPG — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:29:01 +0000

Since we\’re getting all political on this one anyway….

THIS IS WHAT YOUR GOVERNMENT CAN BUILD FOR YOU IF THEY DON\’T WASTE ALL THE MONEY ON WAR!

By: leafpure

leafpure — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:29:09 +0000

Oops, you are right blarg, correct my mistake. I meant the “yellow” race is more evolved than the “white” race.
That’s what I meant.
We (the US) – btw. I am European- had nothing to do with the Japanese ability to innovate. They work harder, they are more intelligent, and more evolved, generally speaking, and genetically of course.
That’s cold hard math (err truth).

By: alexandre

alexandre — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:49:00 +0000

now-a-days?

By: blarg

blarg — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:45:56 +0000

leafpure, they are not \”much more evolved\” than any other nation. after the US bombed the crap out of them then rebuilt them (thus launching them into the modern era), what else can they offer the world but technological innovation?

By: leafpure

leafpure — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:43:51 +0000

It looks like from The Matrix movie set- the Zion world. There was also this giant tube only with floors and dwellings.
The Japanese are very smart people, much further evolved than us.
Sorry if that makes a strong statement.

By: aa_lawth

aa_lawth — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:13:18 +0000

This looks a lot like the cisterns beneath the city of Istanbul.

By: M2JL

M2JL — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:41:56 +0000

Japan will never cease to amaze me! This is really impressive… I predict some movie being shot there in the future…

By: DeadPanDan

DeadPanDan — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:28:35 +0000

Great, another place I have to visit before I die. This list is getting too long.