Once parks, now dumps in Japan
By Ken Belson | The New York Times | Updated: 2011-07-17 08:41
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Workers in Sendai, Japan, find personal mementos in the piles of debris near the city's oceanfront. Kosuke Okahara for The New York Times |
SENDAI, Japan - There is still a traffic jam these days along Hama Kaido, the two-lane road that parallels this city's former coastal playground for kilometers. But the minivans and sedans that once roamed in search of picnic grounds, golf courses and horse stables have been replaced by thousands of dump trucks.
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