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The images refered to with the above URLs show an official document, submitted on 25 June 2009 by Mr Hideto Hiruma, Chief of the Tsukiji fish market, as an answer to the letter dated the 30 March 2009 by Mr Akio Hata, Chairman of the Japan Association on the Environmental Studies, demanding to disclose and preserve the boring core samples from the soil of Toyosu where the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) is planning to move the Tsukiji fish market to.

I recommand you to verify the Japanese-written document bearing an official stamp by yourself, if possible, because I am not sure if you believe what I point out, as follows:

In this document, firstly, Mr Hiruma euphemistically rejects a request by Mr Hata to hold an open forum for the core samples problem. Emphasizing impotance of active information provision, he obviously assumes that it is exclusively the TMG that decides "who is informed of what." Of course no one can hear opinions limitlessly from others, but it is too much absurd that the TMG applies such a general theory to the academic experts (as well as to the Diet members).

Then, Mr Hiruma categoricaly declares the disposal of boring core samples, simply by his alleged reason that these are no longer needed after used by the people whom the TMG exclusively selected, for the purposes that the TMG exclusively detemined as well. Yes, he completely ignores the necessity for availability of the geological samples to be verified by any third party. He assumes that the data which the TMG made/makes public are all the things to be known to people. Moreover, amazingly enough, the elite local official categoricaly states that the core samples concerned are now valueless because they have been soaked by rain water whole waiting for procedures of the disposal. Yes, he ignores that the samples are enough valuable to indicate components of the soil at least, even if moistened. Mr Hiruma looks as if he had forgotten this fact, through rejoicing to suggest that the soaked core samples might be no longer able to prove the liquifaction, pointed out by civil experts.

Anyway, it took three monthes until Mr Hiruma sends this answer to Mr Hata. Just since that next next day, 26 June, there has been an unidentified information that Mr Hiruma, Chief of the Tsukiji fish market, will be shifted on 16 July to the post of Chief of the Ports and Harbours Bureau, and that he will be replaced by Mr Itaru Okada, an executive of the controversial ShinGinko Tokyo. If this rumour is true, there might be a probability that the Assembly would find difficult to assign responsibility for the disposal of the core samples.

Mr Hiruma is known as a person who practiced Governor Ishihara's chauvinism in the Tokyo educational administration before he came Chief of the Tsukiji fish market in 2006. His above-mentioned way to exclude criticism from others might give you some ideas of what influence was brought about by him in the education of the capital city of Japan. His attitude to dismiss the verification of the core samples is against any common sense of science. That must rather belong to the world of religional beliefs like in the Middle Ages. Such a situation has been made possible since the neoliberalism overwhelmed the journalism in this country. So much so, one could doubt if the TMG officials do not consider that there is no god but Governor Ishihara. Then, it might be worthy for people in the world to remind that this god is about to invite the 2016 Olympic Games into the Middle Ages!

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