Comments on: Japan’s most beautiful valley faces crisis due to evil trees http://news.3yen.com/2008-08-30/japans-most-beautiful-valley-faces-crisis-due-to-evil-trees/ News.3Yen.com - Japanese News Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:32:12 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Taro http://news.3yen.com/2008-08-30/japans-most-beautiful-valley-faces-crisis-due-to-evil-trees/comment-page-1/#comment-349641 Taro Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:01:43 +0000 http://news.3yen.com/2008-08-30/japans-most-beautiful-valley-faces-crisis-due-to-evil-trees/#comment-349641 <blockquote>Wasn’t Tokyo Governor, Lumberjack Blinky Ishihara, supposed to chop down all obstructing trees in Japan in his anti-hay fever campaign?</blockquote><b>Pollen...</b> <a href="http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080213i1.html" rel="nofollow"> The Japan Times Online - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008</a> ....The Tokyo Metropolitan Government provides regional up-to-date pollen count forecasts in e-mail to registered cell phone users. The Forestry Agency plans to log cedar and replace them with new strains that were developed to release less pollen. Cedar forests cover about 4.5 million hectares. According to an agency study, the Kanto and Kansai regions trace their pollen concentrations to a combined 95,000 forested hectares. Here, too, plans are afoot for the agency and local governments to log the mature cedar and replant forests with the new strains. The goal is to halve problematic forests in those areas by 2017<a href="http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080213i1.html" rel="nofollow">...<i>more</i>...</a> <hr /> <strong>Pollen set to come out of hibernation</strong> <a href="http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080213i1.html" rel="nofollow"> Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2006 The Japan Times Online</a> ....it is proposed to start cutting down cedar trees this autumn, at a rate of 1,200 hectares per year for 10 years. There will be a lot of road construction involved in this, and in Japan, that always worries me. Construction companies will froth at the mouth and come up with enormously expensive plans to make hard, wide roads for very heavy equipment. These roads are an ecological disaster and cost a hell of a lot to maintain. <a href="http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080213i1.html" rel="nofollow">...<em>more</em>...</a>

Wasn’t Tokyo Governor, Lumberjack Blinky Ishihara, supposed to chop down all obstructing trees in Japan in his anti-hay fever campaign?

Pollen…
The Japan Times Online – Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008
….The Tokyo Metropolitan Government provides regional up-to-date pollen count forecasts in e-mail to registered cell phone users.
The Forestry Agency plans to log cedar and replace them with new strains that were developed to release less pollen.
Cedar forests cover about 4.5 million hectares. According to an agency study, the Kanto and Kansai regions trace their pollen concentrations to a combined 95,000 forested hectares. Here, too, plans are afoot for the agency and local governments to log the mature cedar and replant forests with the new strains.
The goal is to halve problematic forests in those areas by 2017…more…

Pollen set to come out of hibernation
Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2006 The Japan Times Online
….it is proposed to start cutting down cedar trees this autumn, at a rate of 1,200 hectares per year for 10 years.
There will be a lot of road construction involved in this, and in Japan, that always worries me. Construction companies will froth at the mouth and come up with enormously expensive plans to make hard, wide roads for very heavy equipment. These roads are an ecological disaster and cost a hell of a lot to maintain. …more…

]]> By: den4 http://news.3yen.com/2008-08-30/japans-most-beautiful-valley-faces-crisis-due-to-evil-trees/comment-page-1/#comment-349638 den4 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:45:58 +0000 http://news.3yen.com/2008-08-30/japans-most-beautiful-valley-faces-crisis-due-to-evil-trees/#comment-349638 I wonder how long it will be before Tokyo Governor Blinky Ishihara joins in the revival of the Village People? Can't you just see him dressed in the Indian outfit with the hatchet in his hands, singing Macho Macho Man? I wonder how long it will be before Tokyo Governor Blinky Ishihara joins in the revival of the Village People? Can’t you just see him dressed in the Indian outfit with the hatchet in his hands, singing Macho Macho Man?

]]> By: Taro http://news.3yen.com/2008-08-30/japans-most-beautiful-valley-faces-crisis-due-to-evil-trees/comment-page-1/#comment-349636 Taro Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:38:49 +0000 http://news.3yen.com/2008-08-30/japans-most-beautiful-valley-faces-crisis-due-to-evil-trees/#comment-349636 Yes, I wrote about that in November 2006, <a href="http://news.3yen.com/2006-11-15/tokyo-gov-ishiharas-true-calling-lumberjack/" rel="nofollow"><strong>"Tokyo Gov. Ishihara’s true calling: LUMBERJACK!"</strong></a> <blockquote> <i>"I didn't want to do this job. I wanted to be... a lumberjack!<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lumberjack_Song" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">....</a>" </i><br /> <div><span style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><img width="190" height="250" src="http://news.3yen.com/wp-content/images/lumber.jpg" alt="" border="0"/></span></div><blockquote><b>Tokyo launches cedar pollen reduction project in Tama</b><br /> <a href="http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20061114a3.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The Japan Times/Kyodo News, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2006---</a>The Tokyo Metropolitan Government started a project Monday to cut down 1.8 million cedar trees in the mountainous Tama region west of Tokyo <a href="http://news.3yen.com/2006-11-15/tokyo-gov-ishiharas-true-calling-lumberjack/" rel="nofollow">...<em>more</em>...</a></blockquote></blockquote> Yes, I wrote about that in November 2006, “Tokyo Gov. Ishihara’s true calling: LUMBERJACK!”

“I didn’t want to do this job. I wanted to be… a lumberjack!….”

Tokyo launches cedar pollen reduction project in Tama
The Japan Times/Kyodo News, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2006—The Tokyo Metropolitan Government started a project Monday to cut down 1.8 million cedar trees in the mountainous Tama region west of Tokyo …more…

]]> By: den4 http://news.3yen.com/2008-08-30/japans-most-beautiful-valley-faces-crisis-due-to-evil-trees/comment-page-1/#comment-349635 den4 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:34:09 +0000 http://news.3yen.com/2008-08-30/japans-most-beautiful-valley-faces-crisis-due-to-evil-trees/#comment-349635 Wasn't Tokyo Governor, Lumberjack Blinky Ishihara, supposed to chop down all obstructing trees in Japan in his anti-hay fever campaign? Wasn’t Tokyo Governor, Lumberjack Blinky Ishihara, supposed to chop down all obstructing trees in Japan in his anti-hay fever campaign?

]]> By: Taro http://news.3yen.com/2008-08-30/japans-most-beautiful-valley-faces-crisis-due-to-evil-trees/comment-page-1/#comment-349634 Taro Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:30:41 +0000 http://news.3yen.com/2008-08-30/japans-most-beautiful-valley-faces-crisis-due-to-evil-trees/#comment-349634 Hi bizarrejapan-<em>san</em>! Yeah, your comment is a bit off topic but what the hell, <a href="http://www.freakyjapan.com" rel="nofollow">freakyjapan </a>includes more than concrete and tree haters. Hi bizarrejapan-san!
Yeah, your comment is a bit off topic but what the hell, freakyjapan includes more than concrete and tree haters.

]]> By: bizarrejapan http://news.3yen.com/2008-08-30/japans-most-beautiful-valley-faces-crisis-due-to-evil-trees/comment-page-1/#comment-349527 bizarrejapan Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:39:11 +0000 http://news.3yen.com/2008-08-30/japans-most-beautiful-valley-faces-crisis-due-to-evil-trees/#comment-349527 hey man, I just wanted to tell you that BizarreJapan is alive and well - now with a new name and new web address, check it out: www.freakyjapan.com thnx for support! hey man, I just wanted to tell you that BizarreJapan is alive and well – now with a new name and new web address, check it out:

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