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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, July 13, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A photos by t. Matsumoto every Day 1.3 million people Are disgorged from or swept into the 1,800 commuter subway and Long distance trains passing through Shin Juke the business and entertainment Center in Western Tokyo a seemingly endless River of humanity flows through the world s busiest railway station. Last year making 76 arrests More time is spent looking after the thousands of drunks who tall asleep or forget where they live we let them dry out for an hour or Call their  to come pick them  Watanabe says traditional tolerance toward drinking makes Japan heaven for  he add before the station closes Down at night. The Security Force of c5 also herds out the several dozen hoboes who Camp in corridors during the Clay they Aio also constantly  Lor runaways who flock to she Juke and become Pru for the Moie sinister elements of its nightlife District she Idiku i Means new lodging was one of Lour Post St icon towns on the outskirts of Tokyo. Cd lid Lido in Japan s Feudal period  City Borders worn guarded and travellers could pause overnight in lore continuing into the wilderness beyond later it  a quiet farming Village until 1925 when the Loop me opened and the expanding City swallowed it up in recent years several luxury hotels including the  Tokyo Hilton have sprung up in West she Uku. Last year. Tokyo governor Shuichi Suzuki pushed through legislation to move Tokyo s government from Mai Nouchi near the fashionable Gaza and the moated Imperial Palace to the same area the plan Calls for two 50-Story government office buildings to be completed by 1990 at a $1 7 billion in West Shin Uku. About 3 Miles ire City cent Erthe station added a new National railways suburban line in Maich. And Shin Juke will gel another subway line in the 1990s but Kalo says that with the influx of government workers things can Only gel More  Cost of of the the stars and stripes Page 15  
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