Lawrence Travel Stories (JAPAN)💕日本の歷史故事 · Lawrence
(ENG) The evolution of landscapes of Tenpozan and Yumeshima, Osaka
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Osaka's Olympic bid secured exactly six votes—dead last—leaving the city with a 340-billion-yen artificial island that sat empty and overgrown with weeds for decades.
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A brisk look at how Osaka made new land, then had to live with the consequences.
Osaka's bayfront becomes a study in how cities bargain with water, and for a time, come out ahead. The episode moves through Tenpozan and Yumishima, where dredged mud, municipal trash, and heavy engineering built new ground, then widens to show how shipping technology, harbor…
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Watch Osaka's waterfront become a fight between steel steamships and made land.
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