ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT DELAYS TOKYO FISH MARKET MOVE
May 1st, 2007
BY JULIAN RYALL, in TokyoUNDER consideration since 1996, the relocation of Tokyo's Tsukiji fish wholesale markethas been postponed at least a year until 2013 due to fears among traders that the new site is badly polluted.A new state-of-the-art marketwas scheduled to open on the Toyosu Wharf site, a 93-acre man-made island in Tokyo Bay, in 2012, but the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has given in to demands from people in the business to conduct a new environmental assessment of the site.The issue became one of the focal points of April's reelection as governor of ...
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