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Originally Posted by siokan
In laying underground the power transmission line, the charge is 20 times or more. The time twice or more hangs in restoration from the disaster.
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(The region where the power transmission line had been laid underground became harsh conditions)
Niseko and Yuzawa are immediately before the government finance failure.
(The entire Hokkaido is a bad debt)
It is a tax of people in Tokyo, Osaka, and Aichi for the construction cost. 
When the tax revenue doesn't increase because of laying underground the power transmission line, it becomes a a municipality under rehabilitation.
The right of self-government is lost.  |
Yeah but they have no shortage of funds for roads, bridges and tunnels do they? I couldn't believe the amount of tunnels (many very new or being built) in Hokkaido. In Australia they are rare as they cost so much but on parts of the Hokkaido coast you could barely see the water whilst driving as you spend so much time in tunnels! Many of the roads have obviously had 100's of millions of dollars spent on them but they are hardly even used! I reckon Japan probably spends far more each year on roads than even a massive country like Australia.
If even a small percentage of the money spent on such projects was put into helping out towns to have a facelift it would make a huge difference. But of course with how the political system works in Japan the huge amounts of pork barrel projects that go on means there's little money to go around for anything else.