First trees set to fall in August for redevelopment in central Tokyo | The Asahi Shimbun

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1. * **Related post:** [Haruki Murakami pleads for keeping Tokyo park and baseball stadium that inspired his writing](https://www.reddit.com/r/Tokyo/comments/14k3qaz/haruki_murakami_pleads_for_keeping_tokyo_park_and/)

   * **Earlier articles about this:**
   * [Tokyo plan likened to putting ‘skyscrapers’ in Central Park](https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230428/p2g/00m/0na/037000c)
   * [EDITORIAL: Redevelopment of Meiji Jingu Gaien calls for a serious rethink](https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14830617)
   * [Japan park where Babe Ruth played subject of climate battle](https://apnews.com/article/babe-ruth-tokyo-stadium-meiji-jingu-japan-46ae81d9b035959bd37e29ab1472e05a)

   * **New:**
   * [According to journalist Isoko Mochizuki (Japanese tweet)](https://twitter.com/ISOKO_MOCHIZUKI/status/1673166944911110144), the removal of 300 trees in the park will begin on June 30th.

   * **Twitters of activists opposing the redevelopment plan**:
   * https://twitter.com/JICRochelle
   * https://twitter.com/NatsukaKusumoto

   * **Change.org petition** (updates on the activism progress are posted here too):
   * https://www.change.org/p/protect-jingu-gaien-s-trees-rethink-the-development-plan

2. Thats sad I liked going there in fall when the leafs turn yellow, it looks so beautiful.

3. The only good part of the plan seems to be the rebuilding of that exhausted rugby stadium.

4. What a shit show. Another example of greedy politicians ignoring public anger.

5. Because what we really need in this boiling concrete city is less trees and more skyscrapers woo.

6. Some politician is making a bundle off this
   Absolute travesty

7. Don’t they have enough endless streets that lead to seemingly no where and empty office buildings yet?