Tokyo - City manifold

Tokyo - City manifold

Tokyo is becoming Los Angeles - a city of diverse styles, both ancient and modern, romantic medium seriously, just order both floodgates. Tokyo by night, seen from above look like a rugged platform with sparkling lights dim. The building with its own style to grow, long-running untouched eyes, the same message and suffocated. Tokyo crowded, should build on high ground, make use of the waist of the mountain, the space, and bunker costs Chit. The box in Tokyo From Hanoi, we stop in Guangzhou close to four hours then a flight to Tokyo C7765. Until the last 20 points to the Narita Airport. A very long trip to come to the land of the rising sun. We notice tomorrow will focus on remote sensing to start flights to the building's famous Roppongi Tokyo, Japan prohibit the supply royalty, walk to town and the evening will visit Asakusa Tokyo Bay by boat. Back again will be a long day! There is now free! I call Long - a young architect graduate study in Tokyo. He arrived with her ​​small child you learn Japanese, wearing thick glasses, did not dress fancy. On Toyota's family car, she carried us on a tour of Tokyo. Tokyo at night is quite cold despite the bright summer, cold as possible from the majestic Mount Fuji from a distance, the coldness of the cherry blossoms and the cold of the concrete, brick and stone, the cold winds of the sea. We came Doni Chuo famous boulevard, where has all the color and shape, age. I like to sit for hours here to see a microcosm of humanity and to realize how close to each other. I suddenly remembered Nguyen Hue, Dong Khoi Ho Chi Minh City, remember the Hoan Kiem Lake with jogging path surround, dual memory banks of the Perfume River in Hue, remember Square and Madison 5th Avenue New York, remembers Avenue Shanghai's Nanjing, Champs Elysees of Paris, Orchard Road in Singapore ... the way I celebrate the spirit of urban smog subtle as with the English greeting "Hi, Bonjour," the smile ... The shiny shop, the supermarket king who glance in my eyes. I and Long reached an all-glass shop with the pillars, the domed roof, the glass lens transparency. The beauty of it is very fragile, gentle, and every shimmering color change. Standing in the shop I do not know what they sell. After the glass, only to see the bare diamond, loose, as the hero contingency Japanese girl naked beauties show that after centuries of aristocratic hid in shell geisha. Portal icon of Japanesebanks ignored as they are sleepwalking that busy watching the wonderful things that material, the material things inanimate but like talking, thinking. Tokyo has more parks than I thought. Land is gold, silver, but the park is a diamond because it is new living space, the cultural identity of Japanese people. Wide variety of information, complete with grass and flowering bonsai scene. Yoyosi Park, Ueno Park immense. Young men and women, the elderly, young children, gathered here in the holidays, festivals. The rocks scattered small road lined cherry trees, centuries-old trees shade hanging sun, snow, rain for many generations. Tokyo District Maronouchi no Internet stores such as Vietnam (for individuals who have Internet from home to work) but there are many shops Pachico play with the machine. In these places to hear the hum vang both brains, but people feel free to play hard without a break. Shot blasting machine is like a magic for Japanese people, it seems like anti-stress machine. Japan is made ​​up of 7,000 islands grouped into bow to the four islands. Hongshu an island in the middle and largest, accounting for 80% of the population. According to legend, it was part of mainland Asia, and then separated into the ice age thousands of ascending the mountain. Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan around strips separated with China. A country with 70% hills, 67 active volcanoes. Mount Fuji is the highest mountain and is considered a symbol of national spirit of Japan. Living with earthquakes and volcanoes, cities in Japan are concentrated in coastal areas, with particular architecture to endure the wrath of the volcano and the region's severe climate Syberi came down with the hurricane hot and wet from blowing into the Pacific Ocean. Climate change is extremely cold (snow most of the world) and very hot (42oC). Tokyo is also a coastal city, the capital of Japan, a country renowned for the goods the world's leading exporter of branded "Made in Japan" as cars, steel, tech, electronics, ships, machinery, chemicals, information ... 30 years after World War II War , ruins of a country, exhausted, the city virtually destroyed ruins, bridges collapse ... Japan began to rebuild and create new miracles: the income per capita equal to U.S. and 10 years has surpassed the U.S. to lead the world economically. junctions in the city Tokyo Japanese investors around the world have placed plants, buying shares, creating the factory. They quickly seize the initiative developed and further research is in line with consumer tastes then sold around the world. They know to stand on the shoulders of giants to develop! The computer was invented by the British but the Japanese have done it then sold around the world, electrification 200km/gio ships of the French, but the Japanese ships to make 300km/gio and many countries in the world order. Also like all other peoples, native land of the rising sun also begins with how the legend. But historically, there is the theory that race Mongoloid migrants from China, Manchuria, Korea in conjunction with indigenous Ainu people of Japan to form. The struggle for influence among the clans concerned take place. From 794-1185 Heian-Kio, then called Kyoto became the official capital. By the reign of Shogun in 1192 to honor the law of the famous Samurai was born. Japan became the feudal society, then in 1333, Ashikaga took over but the dynasty collapsed in 1574 due to the wars arising from the sands of the warlords themselves. By the 16th century, three characters Great Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi and Tokugawa Ieyasu unified the country has laid a foundation for a development in Japan. But for many reasons Tokugawa was closed for nearly two centuries. in 1867 the Emperor Komei ice, 15-year-old child was brought to the throne and the name Emperor Meiji (Meiji), and then fall of the Tokugawa clan down, power is the young emperor dominated. Emperor Meiji established the constitutional council in 1889 and institutionalized, the ruler of Japan and make Japan a democratic premise for the development of the country. Being inquisitive young king, he Japan has called for the exploration, research, bypassing normal development process that focuses on science, technology, sending students abroad to study, invited experts around teaching. Practices, Western society is to acquire the Japanese, regardless of political views, thus within 50 years from a closed feudal Japan into a modern country with advanced technical background , with international trade and is creating a powerful army not inferior to Western countries. From here begins a modern history that Japan has made ​​the world vibrate with a neo expansion, fascist.Japan in 1894 to humiliate China massive costs claim campaign account. In 1905 only in Japan had wiped out two days Bantique Russian fleet, occupied Taiwan in 1895, annexed Korea in 1910, then in 1941 invasion of Vietnam, then came down Hong Kong, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Philippines, the U.S. attacked at Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), a large hegemon. Japan surrendered to Allied as the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 8-1945 January, Tokyo was more than 1,500 bombers attack destroyed many important buildings. Japan formally surrendered. 30-year postwar period in Japan is focused economic development, economic use to conquer the world. In Japan, the urban system are closely regulated, an independent city must have a large population more than 50,000 people and is run by the government, called the central cities. Local government is charged with important and powerful as the government equivalent to three levels of government, a general operating grant and the second level. Each city is divided into several units (Wards), each Ward has the administrative apparatus. Mayor elected by the people. Tokyo has 23 units with the center, known as a city center and 23 independent cities (satellite town). Each satellite cities have equal area, similar management functions. Planning Law and Administrative Law on the basis of the provisions huge city (Metropolis) to have a population of over 2 million, the largest city (Big city) from 500,000 to 2 million people, the city average of 100,000 to 500,000 people, small cities from 30,000 to 100,000 people, tiny town (Mini city) under 30,000 people. Japan has a very clear planning laws, was studied from the top down, it is national planning, planning Zoning infrastructure such as the express train, cross-country train, highways, ports, airports and then to town planning, facilities planning. It was planned with the internal hard and soft Content is the "planning policies, establish land use planning, infrastructure planning and ultimately establish specific development projects."It is not rigid as in Vietnam is planning ratio 1/5.000, 1 / 200 and the detailed planning of 1 / 500 without specifying the time and performance measures, each local plan to play with regional planning and other independent planning!The last conflict in many big cities in Vietnam on forever struggling to adjust, too complex and is effective. Japan is an investment in advanced countries, any complete plan that are widely advertised, there are policies and propose solutions to manage the implementation plan, no matter clearance, all agreed and concurred with the land. They also set out the support and promotion to negotiate and solve the social problems associated with ... until all people in planning their new agreement approved by the planning by-law documents . It is mandatory guideline compliance people, from people to government. We are engineers Toshino of Urban Development Association to introduce something about planning for the entire convoy Tokyo Vietnamese architects Nam to visit the center hall. Tokyo will be planned again by exploiting the strengths of accumulation, the government will build the center side and the new area in the central core, each region will provide a own urban character and play different roles to support the central core, like Ho Chi Minh District 1, District 2 and 4 is the central core and other areas of the center side. These areas were identified as areas where an international business as well as areas of urban culture are motivated to develop. Center Tokyo is considered the heart of economic and political life of Japan Copyright, expressing the vitality and attractiveness of the country with the world. Last time, it has become overcrowded due to land scarcity, the main objective of it is economics that other functions are not effective. Thus, "The development center" by the city government launched in May 4-1997 is to rejuvenate, always keep the center viable and bring many different functions. The city is located adjacent to the central core is considered the city to renew the face of Tokyo as the city center Otemachi, Yurakucho. "Urban Development Association" includes central government, municipal government and land owners established the boot. The future of the city adjacent to the first vessels to be considered for the development of the capital with the characteristics consistent with the capital. Orientation is outlined under the heading "Development of the city through the cooperation and social harmony among the people." The satellite cities such as Shibuya function as a "City luxury convey life" with beautiful landscape for the workers who created the software. City Ueno-Asakusa satellite is a city ​​of tourism and culture, including works of art and academia, historical buildings, festivals and ceremonies and is described as the "City rich in culture, and nurture the traditional arts." City Ikebukuro satellite called the "City with every facet of life and interaction" with comfortable living and recreational facilities. Osaki will develop into a center for technological development in the 21st century, a multi-functional city, where "life will be filled with the sweet"! And the city is a satellite city Shinyuku interaction and exchange, a city full of energy contributing to the development of central Tokyo ... and much more. Tokyo metropolitan area is large partition plan: where to develop and place a green protected area development are not clearly defined by the belt with the idea of creating "arc capital." Railway transport system, high speed play an important role in the transfer of traffic between urban centers and satellites with radii from 50-100km. Toshino said Tokyo area are under great pressure of population increase (to 32% of the population concentrated here in Japan). Therefore, urban planning should be anticipated and managed is clear that which can organize that for each person living, working and recreation without causing pollution, congestion. This work by a scientific management and detail-oriented, no compromise ... undertaking. Friday afternoon, Tokyo suddenly burst apart like colony emerges from every corner of the ground flooded, roads suddenly alive with people walking out in need. They've done a day and tomorrow will be the weekend. From the subway, bus, from buildings, plants, people spill onto the street and began to enjoy life. The face is no longer pensive, far away, cold, the feet are no longer "programmed" fixed one-dimensional as the emotionless robot. They were laughing, greeting, shopping, they hug, as she was marketing. The young man applying glue hair, blue dye, red dye, the Japanese girl dyed brown color with a beautiful belly button rings that dangle pretty attached. We chose a cafe in a small square where the door down the tunnel leading to dozens of train running around the city. This is the traffic as the city's underground, it can be observed from the part of living Japanese, and bustling, noisy, and snacks, and smoking, also purchase haphazard, and the spontaneous band, trumpet loud drums, and advertisements for everything Japanese dolls dressed in two strings, dance Lambada and offers viewers to buy perfume, hair spray. The little Japanese girl child, double eyelids and white as cotton Grapefruit world where many, like they just wait until Friday to gather here, entertainment and dating. Dating at intersections is a true underground culture of the civilization of the subway. Tokyo is becoming the Los Angeles, a city of diverse styles, both ancient and modern, has serious romantic sufficient, just order both floodgates. Tokyo has many temples, pagodas, ancient wooden architecture from 1-5 floors high, earthquake resistant populations or stone with a layout that looks like fireworks radio, interspersed between modern urban populations, with moderate condominiums in space by Japanese modest. Tokyo is carrying 32% of the population in its area of residence and spread that far apart to make two hours by train. Toshino I was invited to see a new housing area that he himself designed and built up to the mini mansion on the outskirts of the city, just adjacent houses in Vietnam. He said the traditional building material in Japan is wood, but now the price is too expensive, so many new Japanese in turn used materials synthesis and assembly. From the stairs, roof, ceiling to cyclone cleaning, kitchen are processed at the plant, so construction time is very fast in Japan. Everything is like in the house of the Vietnamese, the other is that they only display means very little furniture, and inside the bed, no furniture, Japanese people sit on the reference sheet called Tatami straw, sleeping is broken Thin mattresses are packed neatly. At each corner is a fireplace Tokonoma power, simple yet sophisticated ... all create a Japanese style of living is .... The Japanese now see a little pressure of ethics' real-life sex life themselves "Confucius again. The red house was built around Tokyo and the satellite cities with strange symbols, in which they are free, be free! Half of the West and half Asian. Men and women meet freely without fear of people looking look. A card from the code, locks spend cards, food, drink and spend the card, the computer automatically charge the card with the price clearly listed: 1 hour 5000 yen, 7000 yen for 2 hours, 3 hours ... The demand is huge, they are no longer dating in the park or the traditional Shinto shrine with eyes falter, shy anymore. The Age @ that! Story boys and girls be resolved within the red hotel, and is absolutely secret. The modern Japanese are enjoying the fruits that many decades ago they tried to suppress, to accumulate the country ahead of everything challenge. Discipline, practice and Confucian feudal system was the Meiji strict observance of every class, but now the younger generation as trying to escape the unbridled it. Every night, I and Long Times is in the bustling streets, the festivities of the night ... It seems every Japanese has two faces, a very serious, polite, courteous during the day, a liberal, undisciplined, loose, loose, play "discharge time" at night. Freedom express your self in a few hours seemed very precious to them. Toshino too, he took us to many bars, karaoke, discotheque, sex shop, and in the field, the Japanese have invented all sorts of "stuff" for the prevention, including film photos, selling pornography is widespread from the airport to the corner. They tend to suppress that is unnatural enjoyment as a philosophy that Toshino summarized: "All I have to the right place, right time, do not correspond to physically corrupt the soul." Japanese women also increasingly want to escape from the old ties of Confucianism more. Toshino that Japanese women tend to live independently, single and owns his work, escape the shadow of the old man, they love to travel, preferring his own company, in short they prefer to be free ... Previously, the words he said, women at home, doing housework, parenting, and wait for her husband! ... "that her husband is, as you know, overtime do they even bother to coffee places to relax, and the relaxation of Japanese men now more complicated, not only as ancient Geisha again, everything .... " Long have I sat for hours along the busy Tokyo streets. Every youth, men and women wearing T-shirts, jeans My fun filled shopping stores grow chen-contained neighborhoods. They are confident and proud step forward, not little shy embarrassment. Look at them, as I read the messages of healthy future generations. Long on the mind of the nagging me: and they that their young stars to lag so far behind them?Lag distance GDP, lagging in science, technology, lagging intellectual, behavioral. There is something of the resignation, the surrender. Long had told me months on study here. He was quiet and silent. Storms have emerged from within his heart by just suffering from the behavior of the Japanese and the rest of Asia! Stigma and loneliness where Long has created a different person. He burning the will and determination in learning, earning and returning.Long said: "Le Quy Don wrote on his nation is a country famous for its culture, written material, very nice charter rival those of China." He said that his country is poor compared to Japan by had a more epic history, each molded how talented and brilliant inventor. But clearly at this point inferiority "poor" do we lose morale. He saw Vietnam many women are forced to do humiliating things where country people are treated cruelly, contempt, Vietnam workers to work hard in the field with cheap wages, not less people with fraud and fled ... Long told how to think like that ever be said, though far from home but still monitor the home through newspapers, internet and television. He said in Japan, when introduced HCMC, Hanoi, on the small screen like that time the city is a forest of Honda, Yamaha, ... chen filled roads, dust gloomy with the "ninja" veil, the concrete context, corruption, mafia, ODA loan losses, the construction negligence, the architecture and the urban identity loss, pollution, horrible traffic accidents with fatalities each year up to three times as thousands of injured. In just 10 years, it has robbed hundreds of thousands of people much more than just battle! ... It is shame that people labor away from home Vietnam, learning to shut up because silence can not explain . Why is Japan such a boom? That is the question that at that time in Vietnam, Phan Chu Trinh also set out and wondering how to put his people and boom like that? The only way is to renew and revive ethnic education. For too long only see China as a development model, so when faced with the West have strong potential in military, economic, Vietnam, such as outdoor goods, baby wear and feel weak low profile makes self-esteem the nation was deeply hurt. Phan Chu Trinh, Huynh Thuc Khang and Tran Quy Cap, Vietnam was the media who are not afraid of danger, disguised as traders learn mechanical civilization of the Russian fleet anchored in Vietnam to witness a fact the plane: the three original wooden ship our diminutive star is comparable to the iron warship with machine guns and head of Russia's complex mechanics? Phan Chau Trinh and Phan Boi Chau had come to Japan to witness the innovations of the Meiji Emperor of Japan by that time the Russian fleet was destroyed in a flash as the engine has seen a pile of iron Great floating on the waters of the country. Just as decades of close, we face globalization with their bare hands, surprised and disappointed by the slow, the lag too far the world on many fronts to then eagerly opened renewal to revive the nation and reforming the country. Pain was the humiliating poverty, Long as a generation as he will have enough courage and strength needed to start building and catch up the gap left behind in Vietnam. The country needs young people like world. I told Long that as said to myself. The country now integrated to thousands, millions of young people like him work, learn, explore, research and dedication to the country rub shoulders with other world powers. Please do not ask what our country needs, but ask what you need for the country? The history of their country had lost the chance to open and develop the turn away from the movement of reform and revive the movement for people like Dong Du Duy Tan movement of Phan Boi two Chau and Phan Chu Trinh, initiated a century ago. I remember the beautiful face, well-being of post-Ton Nu Thi Ninh, women intellectuals, former ambassador to Vietnam in Belgium, while trying to protect Vietnam's image to the world through meaningful work as the organization "Vietnam cultural week in Belgium and Europe", actively meeting to explain to America and the world about the country, culture, history and everyday life of the people of Vietnam peace-loving, intelligent and desires. in 1975, independent country, she attended the World Congress of Women in Berlin and here she said: "In a typical large supermarket and bright electric light, I stood there, shocked a sausage and thinks of forest country, Vietnam is very poor of me, suddenly I'm in tears, the At that time, I think that Vietnam must find way out of poverty .... " And since then, the Vietnam Women normally have nurtured an intellectual mind is to bring science to the young generation, and that path is education. Last day in Tokyo, with the things heard, saw or even touch, I like to fall in a bittersweet mood, love and hate, but not how to explain. Toshino Long and asked me to visit a subway system, and to leave Tokyo every facet. Heavy rain. Tokyo People seem to get under all the basement of the residence rain subway, where not only the subway, but the endless supermarket, shops and a range of technical systems, the city's pipes. An underground world full of lively and bustling. Rain like a waterfall above, but here only listen to the music, the sound of laughing, footsteps of nuom nuop. I wondered if hurricanes or tsunamis can overflow into the city is ...? The ground floor of this right are the graves if the unfortunate happens! Toshino nodded in agreement, but he seems to know the city interested in this problem from 1999-2004 for the city was more rain and storms to the subway system was paralyzed, a series of drowning, escalator tunnel traffic and flooding. Currently, the city has built many huge water reservoirs deep underground in the earth are connected by 60 kilometers of tunnels 10 meters wide enough for cars plus the pump powerful water flow Edogawa River and from there to the sea. The lake is called the G-cans implies the ability to conquer nature of the Japanese. It is so amazing!With strong technical strength and economic wealth, the Japanese have solved this problem way too simple? A city under the city, a city under the city subway system with 33 times longer than the main streets on the ground! Did not know this is true in terms of planning, but the Japanese seem too proud, wild nature in the face, facing what should have dialogue and harmony. What is the natural active earthquake locations. What is volcanic eruptions.What is the tsunami violently ... The weak spots hidden disasters of a Mega City (huge city) was the United Nations has long warned about the prospect of seeing the large urban bulge, where 2 / 3 of mankind is to give rural and natural to give up, give up the simple comforts to live crowded, loi stuffed in the tiny box on the high ground where people of urban civilization , is comfort! I imagine the city as the "trap" the giant, as mass graves for the rage of heaven and earth attacks. Vietnam do not look back into the car wound down by the people of Vietnam that intelligent nature lovers should early understand that one should not create your own complex and then solve it by the complexity, another loss. I remembered a sage Japan Hideharu Onuma: "Sometimes we shoot the target, but shot straight slide itself. The other, we hit the target, but finally slipped. Our goal is to hit the target and themselves and hope that English arrow through his plaque will awaken from the "dream life" and gives us real insight into the highest state of life. " Looks like Japanese people are still wondering this forever ...!