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Re:Tokyo's retro shotengai arcades are falling victim to gen... by ZenoArrow on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @07:04AM (#44645418)
> People say this but Tokyo preserves _way more_ weird subculture stuff

> I am worried that the Tokyo government isn't particularly interested in preserving these places though

You're basically agreeing with me. The fact that Tokyo has interesting places now doesn't mean it will in the future.

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Re:Tokyo's retro shotengai arcades are falling victim to gen... by rtpg on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @08:15AM (#44645911)
Fair enough.

I think that the attitude of the government has shifted but not by _that_ much, and I don't think we can discount the past 50 years of urbanism as having no effects (plenty of the stores I'm thinking about aren't 100 years old after all). But I won't pretend to believe that we can't have nice things taken away from us.

I don't know how we get new Nakano Broadways in the current environment.

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