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Re:M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued by pezezin on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @07:46AM (#44732993)
I do live in Japan and good god, I have never seen such messy people anywhere else in the world. The offices of all my Japanese colleagues are piles upon piles of documents and boxes without any kind of order.

But the cities themselves are like that. There is zero urban planning, just buildings thrown around in impossible non-Euclidean patterns.

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Re:M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued by msephton on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @09:37AM (#44734039)
They're a book from the early 1990s called "Tokyo Style" that is packed with photos of real living conditions from back then. Chaos of every variety. Plus some Super Famicom and PC-Engines laying around. A very cool book, most recently reprinted in 2024 with Japanese/English captions.
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Re:M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued by ccozan on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @11:39AM (#44735642)
and the cables, the cables hanging from everywhere!

( btw, has anyone noticed in anime there are always frames of street cabling? Like those cylindrical transformes and thick cables. Almost cyberpunk! )

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Re:M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued by Symbiote on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @12:39PM (#44736419)
The transformers are a result of a the lower voltage (also used in America), for efficiency and to keep the required voltage the transformer needs to be nearer to the house.
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Re:M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued by pezezin on Thursday July 31, 2025 @04:20AM (#44743537)
We also have transformers in Europe, but they are hidden. Which incidentally makes them more reliable, as they are not exposed to the elements.
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Re:M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued by huntoa on Sunday August 03, 2025 @11:17AM (#44777148)
Here's the full book "Tokyo: a certain style" by Kyoichi Tsuzuki (same author), https://archive.org/details/tokyo-a-certain-style
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Re:M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued by msephton on Monday August 04, 2025 @03:26AM (#44782928)
I believe that's essentially the first English edition.
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