The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 May 1967 — Page 4

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Th* Dally Banner, Greaneastla, Indiana

Wednesday, May 3, 1947

Japan’s Shop Mart’s Sprawl Underground

TOKYO (UPI) — Americana sprawl shopping centers across suburban landscapes. The Japanese put theirs underground. So, when an apartment dwelling housewife tells her neighbor she will spend the afternoon downtown shopping, she really means down. And her husband would catch an elevator, up, to catch the subway home. For In Japan today, there are some 25 underground towns, called “chikagai,” most of them centered at major railway stations. Each is complete with shops, bars, restaurants

and department stores. Some boast beauty parlors and theaters. For instance, Tokyo’s Palaceside Building, dedicated less than four months ago has five floors underground. Above, it climbs nine stories and offers a good view of the Imperial Palace across the street and of the royal moat. Palaceside was built by Reader’s Digest and the Mainichi Shimbun (newspaper) and also houses the Asia headquarters of United Press International. The mass circulation daily’s

huge rotary presses are riveted, on the fifth floor — under-: ground. A pressman, through : with his day’s work, would; catch an elevator to the second; level and then catch the subway home. The housewife, meanwhile, would have completed shopping in the subterranean town where she could buy every item on the dinner menu and then some. | Once going underground at the nearest subway station to her home, had she not surfaced until her return home. She had evaded the sun, rain, snow or whatever nature had designed

for that day on the world above. But she had not avoided

people.

Conservative estimates say that the Chikagais have an j average of 600,000 walk-in cus-; tomers daily. They come by j subway, by stairways and escalators. While it is true a great number of them use the underground cities merely as alleyways enroute home, chances are they’ll stop for a cup of coffee, beer or an inexpensive gift for the family. Others stream into the area to buy, drink, eat, browse, loaf and even standing around the

comer watching all the girls go;

by.

One of the largest of the Chikagais in the nation is at the Osaka central railroad station. It has 225 shops and some 800,000 people visit it daily. Tokyo’s main railroad station has one as does Shinjuku, another important rail center in Japan’s capital. Construction ministry auth- j orities usually insist that the planned underground shopping center be situated where there! are at least 500,000 potential customers a day. Otherwise.! a construction — or more cor-; rectly — an excavation permit would be hard to come by. There’s good reason for building underground; laws in a country often hit by earthquakes limit the highest above ground. The subterranean buildings are a blessing for the developer too, who otherwise would have to pay up to 8375 a square foot for surface landJ For underground space they pay a third less, or even lower.

Real estate companies and other “Huis” operate the Chikagais. They provide their own police force, security patrols and even offer professional advice on how to improve business. Underground towns are double-walled with reinforced concrete slabs and easily absorb the rumblings of crowded trains and the see-saw effects of Japanese earthquakes. The most frequent complaint! of underground employes, especially from beauty-conscious females, is that the processed: air pumped below dries their skin. But managers of most shops allow at least twice-a-day breaks for employes to surface for air and sunshine. Some even provide moistening cream and vitamin pills. If working in a well-ventil-ated (heated during the winter) underground shop is a menace to good health, it is going to be several years before doctors and scientists will be able to

say for sure. But insurance companies are taking no chances, either from the health standpoint of

possible damage from natural disasters such as earthquakes. They are charging higher premiums for coverage.

Foreign News Commentary

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Sinha was forced to compromise with the Comm unis ts, declaring the old British famine code in force in 23,461 square miles of Bihar’s territory, covering 12,733,000 persons. The declaration, first since the great famine of the 1870’a raged through the provinces 97 years ago killing millions, will serve little other purpose than what the Communists intended. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her cabinet had opposed a famine declaration “because it would put a bad mark on

India.’’

Putting the famine code into effect will do little mors than give district officers mors power to carry out relief operations. But resources will remair the same for the more than 30 million affected by food scarcity. Sinha said he asked for a “bare minimum” of 1.6 million tons of food grains from the state in the five months beginning in May, but the central government turned down the request. He said 185,000 tons were promised for March and 200.000 tons for April, but that half of the March quota had not yet arrived. He warned that more areas of Bihar would be declared famine-stricken if the central government did not meet the state's needs. He claimed the famine was brought about by “reckless deforestration in the state, criminal neglect of minor irrigation schemes and monopolization of the food grains trade by a small coterie of unscrupu- ! lous traders and big growers.”

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