Trigger Happy
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Chiba City: a sprawling, industrial town in the humid, rainy Japanese spring, where downbeat pockets of hardware shops, Pachinko parlors and lean-to noodle shacks are carved up by multilane highways. Cars don’t stop to admire the view; they are always going somewhere else. Usually to the south, to Makuhari, Japan’s own vision of the future now. Makuhari is a coastal district reclaimed from the sea and built from scratch within a decade: lowering steel-and-glass skyscrapers, webs of swirling concrete walkways, and acres of space on ground level—liminal expanses of perfectly clean and geometrically patterned paving that in Los Angeles would be instantly carved up into parking lots, but which here have precisely no function
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