Celebration of Completion of Rebuilding Tokyo, Mar. 23.
Afior nearly seven years of labour and an expenditure of over ¥Y.800, 000,000, Tokyo, seven-tenths [which was destroyed in the terrible earthquake and fire in 1928, stands rebuilt and- modernized. To-morrow the Japanese capital will celebrate the "completion of the main programme of reconstruction, Despite the present acute business depression, the festivities will last three days. On the final day the Emperor, arrayed in ancient ceremonial attire, will worship before the Imperial Sanctuary and will report on the work of reconstruction to the spirits of his Imperial ancestors.
The main idea underlying street adjustment in Tokyo was to inerense the percentage of ronds to the total area of the urban districts from only 22 per cent., before the disaster to 25 per cent., nearly equal to the figure in Paris and Berlin.
Over 400 bridges, most of them of wooden construction, were destroyed in the earthquake and many of these have been reconstructed 80. bbe quake and fire-proof.
Included in the reconstruction programme were provisions for the establishment of three large and 51 smaller parks, whil the. redevelopment and building of ronds rinch attention has been paid to improving trafic facilities sand to combining beauty with utility—Reuter.
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