#Metropolitan Government Building

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Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. Designed by Kenzo Tange, construction began in 1988.

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Yellow Backpack Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, Tokyo, Japan, July 13, 2024

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Tokyo

Tokyo 2023

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東京都庁

2024.8.11

先月下旬から『ゴジラ都庁襲撃』が上映されるようになり、ちょっと気になっていた東京都プロジェクションマッピング。

先日、第１作目のゴジラを一緒に観に行った子から新宿でのお買い物&夕食を誘われたので、一緒に19:30からの上映を観に行ってきました。

あの有名な音楽も流れる中、現れたゴジラ…もっと観たい！と思ったのもつかのま、その後も音楽に合わせた映像がいろいろ上映され、それぞれ違うタイプで15分間楽しめました。

都庁の目の前の都民広場から観たのですが、広いので混み合うこともなく、皆適当に座って、一番前の席で映画を観ているような感じで見上げて鑑賞しました。

外国人観光客の姿も日本人の姿も両方ありましたが、三連休の日曜日でもぎりぎりの時間に行って普通に見られたということは、平日はもっとお客さん少ないのかな？

都庁の建物は高いとは言え、周囲にも同じように高いビルはたくさんあるし、そもそも新宿駅を挟んで都庁とは反対側のエリアの方が人は多いので、上映に気が付いていない人、都庁まで足を運ぶのが面倒で行っていない人も結構いそうだなと思いました。

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96/366 : Pink Sakura and Blue Tocho por Hidehiko Sakashita Por Flickr: April 5, 2016 LXV #366project2016

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Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building

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Tokyo was packed full of so many amazing memories.

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obviously i've seen a lot of very tall buildings since i've been in tokyo but this mfer was gigantic

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Adriana Maria Randall is a South African politician. She is currently a member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature for the opposition Democratic Alliance. She is the DA's Shadow MEC for Finance. Randall had previously served as the DA's Procurement spokesperson and Shadow MEC for Provincial Treasury and e-Government. CareerRandall was a Bank Manager at Absa for many years. She holds post-graduate degrees in Business Psychology.[1] In 2005, Randall became a member of the Democratic Alliance and in March 2006, she was elected as the ward councillor for ward 52 in the Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality. Randall was appointed the Shadow Mayoral Committee Member for Finance in the metro in 2012. She headed the Against Crime Team, where she exposed tender irregularities in Tshwane.[1] In the build-up to the 2014 election, Randall was placed twenty-third on the Democratic Alliance's list of candidates for the provincial legislature.[2] She was elected to the Gauteng Provincial Legislature as the DA won 23 seats.[3] In 2019, she was placed sixteenth on the party's provincial list and was re-elected.[2]

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Bangladeshi student protesters stormed a prison and freed hundreds of inmates Friday as police struggled to quell unrest, with huge rallies in the capital Dhaka despite a police ban on public gatherings.

This week's clashes have killed at least 105 people, according to an AFP count of victims reported by hospitals, and emerged as a momentous challenge to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's autocratic government after 15 years in office.

Student protesters stormed a jail in the central Bangladeshi district of Narsingdi and freed the inmates before setting the facility on fire, a police officer told AFP on condition of anonymity.

"I don't know the number of inmates, but it would be in the hundreds," he added.

Dhaka's police force took the drastic step of banning all public gatherings for the day -- a first since protests began -- in an effort to forestall another day of violence.

"We've banned all rallies, processions and public gatherings in Dhaka today," police chief Habibur Rahman told AFP, adding the move was necessary to ensure "public safety".

That did not stop another round of confrontations between police and protesters around the sprawling megacity of 20 million people, despite an internet shutdown aimed at frustrating the organisation of rallies.

"Our protest will continue," Sarwar Tushar, who joined a march in the capital and sustained minor injuries when it was violently dispersed by police, told AFP.

"We want the immediate resignation of Sheikh Hasina. The government is responsible for the killings."

'Shocking and unacceptable'

At least 52 people were killed in the capital on Friday, according to a list drawn up by the Dhaka Medical College Hospital and seen by AFP.

Police fire was the cause of more than half of the deaths reported so far this week, based on descriptions given to AFP by hospital staff.

UN human rights chief Volker Turk said the attacks on student protesters were "shocking and unacceptable".

"There must be impartial, prompt and exhaustive investigations into these attacks, and those responsible held to account," he said in a statement.

The capital's police force earlier said protesters had on Thursday torched, vandalised and carried out "destructive activities" on numerous police and government offices.

Among them was the Dhaka headquarters of state broadcaster Bangladesh Television, which remains offline after hundreds of incensed students stormed the premises and set fire to a building.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police spokesman Faruk Hossain told AFP that officers had arrested Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed, one of the top leaders of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).

"He faces hundreds of cases," Hossain said, without giving further details on the reasons for Ahmed's detention.

'Symbol of a system'

Near-daily marches this month have called for an end to a quota system that reserves more than half of civil service posts for specific groups, including children of veterans from the country's 1971 liberation war against Pakistan.

Critics say the scheme benefits children of pro-government groups that back Hasina, 76, who has ruled the country since 2009 and won her fourth consecutive election in January after a vote without genuine opposition.

Hasina's government is accused by rights groups of misusing state institutions to entrench its hold on power and stamp out dissent, including by the extrajudicial killing of opposition activists.

Her administration this week ordered schools and universities to close indefinitely as police stepped up efforts to bring the deteriorating law and order situation under control.

"This is an eruption of the simmering discontent of a youth population built over years due to economic and political disenfranchisement," Ali Riaz, a politics professor at Illinois State University, told AFP.

"The job quotas became the symbol of a system which is rigged and stacked against them by the regime."

'Nation-scale' internet shutdown

Students say they are determined to press on with protests despite Hasina giving a national address earlier this week on the now-offline state broadcaster seeking to calm the unrest.

Nearly half of Bangladesh's 64 districts reported clashes on Thursday, broadcaster Independent Television reported.

The network said more than 700 people had been wounded throughout Thursday including 104 police officers and 30 journalists.

London-based watchdog NetBlocks said Friday that a "nation-scale" internet shutdown remained in effect a day after it was imposed.

"Metrics show connectivity flatlining at 10% of ordinary levels, raising concerns over public safety as little news flows in or out of the country," it wrote on social media platform X.

(AFP)

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East Side of North Observatory Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, Tokyo, Japan, July 13, 2024

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Tokyo 2023

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Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building

Shooting date: Early July 2024

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