Tsukiji fish market

He is in Tokyo.

It is 7 in the morning at the Tsukiji Outer Market.

He has never been to this market before.

He isn't there as a tourist.

Might be blasphemous, though.

I had it at Tsukiji Fish Market.

It was some fatty tuna.

Best bite of sushi I've had in Japan.

Right, Tsukiji.

The transition from the historic, organically chaotic Tsukiji Market to the new, heavily modernized, sanitized Toyosu facility faced an incredibly similar, highly contentious relocation conflict over space, rent, and modernization.

The architecture completely changed, but they kept the exact same pre-dawn auction hours.

The city's logistical needs overrode everything else.

i mean like it's not far right it's not like it's out of the way it's not like it's hard to get to like we have to go to the bridge and the market's right there

I mean, we've done the Tsukiji Fish Market.

It's not going to get, like, I don't think anything could possibly get much more crowded than that.

Right.

それが2016年9月の出来事へとつながるわけですね。

ええ、築地市場から豊洲市場への移転延期問題です。新市場となる豊洲の地下から基準値を大幅に超えるベンゼンとかヒ素が検出されて、約束されていたはずの土壌汚染対策が完了していなかったことが発覚したんです。

はい。

これについても政治的な対立は一旦横に置いておきます。ここで私が聞きたいのは、なぜ著者がこの単なる行政の怠慢というか、環境問題を神道における古典的な汚れそのものだと指摘しているのかということなんですが。