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Seven riddles suggest a secret city beneath Tokyo
search.japantimes.co.jp — This inconsistency is just the first of seven riddles that he investigates in his book. The second reveals a secret underground complex between Kokkai-gijidomae and the prime minister's residence. A prewar map (riddle No. 3) shows the Diet in a huge empty space surrounded by paddy fields
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- MCMookie, on 10/30/2007, -6/+134This is just viral marketing for a new Godzilla movie.
- DanjWilliams, on 10/10/2007, -5/+0LOL
- PaulOwen, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Only if the movie has been a *really* long time coming.
The Japanese guy wrote the book about the tunnels under Tokyo five years ago.
- BillyWells, on 10/10/2007, -9/+241It's where they store their Gundams and other super robots when people from other countries come to visit. Also the prime minister's massive collection of the tentacle rape hentai.
- carleethian, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7all your base are belong to us
- DanjWilliams, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4lol you can't forget the Japaneze seizure robots! =] http://www.starterupsteve.com/seizurebots/
- actorboy, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2A little warning would be nice. Like: Warning: Do not click this link if you are prone to seizures!
- wattznext, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Dude, he called them seizure robots.
- actorboy, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2A little warning would be nice. Like: Warning: Do not click this link if you are prone to seizures!
- chris9902, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1he's trying to set us up the bomb
- delusr, on 10/10/2007, -14/+2This was built to save Japan from Godzilla.
- allywilson, on 10/10/2007, -1/+68I think this is pretty interesting. Subway systems have the potential to hide a lot if stuff. Afterall - you only go on the train line. You don't get to get off and look around do you? Isn't there like 3 or 4 stations that don't even appear on the London underground maps for instance?
- angusm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8As robertcamb5 says, there are disused stations on the London underground, but they're not secret. However, there are areas of the Underground that were designed to act as deep shelters: in some stations, you can actually see the blast doors that would be closed in emergency. If I remember correctly, these were added after the Second World War, although the stations were also used as bomb shelters in WWII.
As to why the Japanese might have underground complexes, remember, this is a nation that knows what it's liked to be nuked. Why wouldn't they build tunnels to hide in?
- angusm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8As robertcamb5 says, there are disused stations on the London underground, but they're not secret. However, there are areas of the Underground that were designed to act as deep shelters: in some stations, you can actually see the blast doors that would be closed in emergency. If I remember correctly, these were added after the Second World War, although the stations were also used as bomb shelters in WWII.
- carpespasm, on 10/10/2007, -4/+25i'd like to see photos and a map of what he's found. if he seriously thinks there's something up he should make it known in more ways than just a book he's profiting from.
- TomRitchford, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Ah, because he might have done a lot of research to get this information and you want it for free! Good idea -- for you -- but I can see why he wouldn't want to do that...
- BobbyMC, on 07/21/2008, -10/+2It's where they film all the Japanese pornos.
- puntspeeedchunk, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Looks like a job for Maikaru Moah.
- monkeyvoodoo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1I think only a few people will get that one, but it made me laugh pretty good.
- holton1010, on 10/10/2007, -33/+5ahhh...i cant stand this new commenting system. www.evda.com has better commenting system...
- hempydave, on 10/10/2007, -9/+0suks 2 B U
- phrantakle, on 10/10/2007, -2/+55*****, I ***** love tunnels. Reminds me of this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1299444,00.html
- sidewalker, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3that was pretty cool. finding a note that said 'Do not try to find us" would be kind of creepy but cool.
- DanjWilliams, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0wtf
- Terr01, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2At last, the top secret Majestic 12 rec room hideout!
- chubbybubba, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2nice link. Perforating mexicans... cool!
- nilspjohnson, on 10/30/2007, -8/+6conspiracy theories sell. See CNN, Fox News, NBC, et.
- userini, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4See 9/11, War in Iraq, George Bush.
- diggdong, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6People would be surprised of the tunnels in their metropolitan city in the USA. Japan is EXPECTING a nuke from North Korea. On another topic not-so-related. When the Japanese invaded Indochina Asia during WWII they had a systematic wealth collection structure ( e.g. they would torture a Chinese family to find out where they buried their savings on property). Well, things didn't work as planned. And most of the loot was buried in the Philippines. Read about in Gold Warriors by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave.
- reverendbuck, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2That's also the basis for one of the story threads in Neal Stephenson's Cryptomnicon. There is reported to be a huge tunnel complex somewhere in the Philippines where the gold was stashed.
- hempydave, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1With the numerous earth quakes, land slides, volcano's, underground cave collapses that the Pine's suffer its a wonder if it isn't on the bottom of the ocean by now
- reverendbuck, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2That's also the basis for one of the story threads in Neal Stephenson's Cryptomnicon. There is reported to be a huge tunnel complex somewhere in the Philippines where the gold was stashed.
- Djharlock, on 10/10/2007, -11/+3Of course there's a city beneath Tokyo, thats where the secret corporation Nerv. is located. They build giant robots to fight hellish angels that resemble nothing similar to the angels in the bible. =D I want MY Evangelin.
- mashw, on 10/10/2007, -4/+4Don't try so hard.
- greystar, on 10/10/2007, -23/+1This article is 4 YEARS OLD! Why is it on the front page of DIGG? Either clean up the algorithms or DIGG is going to stop being known as a social news network and start being known as a source for sensationalist (all the political agenda crap that takes over DIGG all week) and outdated (this story) content.
- br0ther, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2at least it's not a dupe afaik.
- quakerorts, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Dude. Time to up your meds.
- tkltangent, on 10/30/2007, -2/+187 riddles that suggest poor communication between bureaucratic institutions...
- imerlin, on 10/30/2007, -2/+8You people are ruining everything. It's not a secret anymore, now is it?! My evil-world-domination inc. stocks are going down as we speak!
- Osjpr, on 10/10/2007, -15/+1Marked Inaccurate.
- quakerorts, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2The printable page has not crashed yet:
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/print/fl20030301a1.html- fezoola, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0This page works: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20030301a1.html
- caseyfw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I remember seeing a lot about this on damninteresting.com:
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=159
It has a great rave about a similar sort of structure/underground city that exists in the UK, which was to be used as a shelter for the government and royal family in the event of a nuclear war.
Casey. - CorporateSlave, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3where can i buy this book in english? because as far as conspiracys go, this one seems at least plausible. not like paul being dead or aliens at roswell. anybody?
- krunk4ever, on 10/30/2007, -0/+8site was unresponsive. here's duggmirror:
http://duggmirror.com/world_news/Seven_riddles_suggest_a_secret_city_beneath_Tokyo/ - Raian, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Most political institutions have escape tunnels and underground bunkers. For example the Canadian parliament buildings have tunnels starting in the library-- they just spent a fortune upgrading them, and the library over the course of years.
- TexanPsycho, on 10/10/2007, -4/+4Wow, this riddle is pretty intense:
"Page load error.
The site is currently congested. Please try your page request again in a few minutes." - hempydave, on 10/10/2007, -5/+0Digg "buries" an other low bandwidth site.
- brianzero, on 10/10/2007, -1/+36That is where NERV is located.
- accn112, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Soon this guy will discover that ever building in Tokyo has the ability to go inside the ground.
- ShrimpCrackers, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Ahem. That was Neo Tokyo, not the old one.
- accn112, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Soon this guy will discover that ever building in Tokyo has the ability to go inside the ground.
- NikoKun, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1What you mean Nerv? we already knew about that
- stravik, on 10/10/2007, -5/+0Anyone who goes down there better watch out for INKlings...
And if you don't know what an INKling is, you're not keeping up on contemporary Japanese novels. - Aspire36, on 10/30/2007, -2/+1Tunnels like this are probably under a lot of US city's too. Bomb shelters, Old missile silos, or just built for the hell of it. (possibly just decommissioned rail-lines... Are ones that were started and never finished). Although, I doubt theres any in the city I'm close to... Go Detroit... The auto industry prevents even above ground rail-ways from being built, so no secret tunnels.
- Armitage2k, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1if they were built, and decomissioned... then there would be construction records... which there are not..
- doktorzee, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1Unless its a secret, where perhaps those records went up with that old records building that burned down a few years back....you know the one...
- Armitage2k, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1if they were built, and decomissioned... then there would be construction records... which there are not..
- CLShortFuse, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Evangelion, anyone?
- masfenix, on 10/10/2007, -5/+0I dont think its true at all. But like aspire said, WE do have tunnels is selected areas, for evacuation, and other disaters.
http://www.fakebets.net - Deekman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13Obviously it's where the Eva's are hidden for when 2nd impact is uppon us.
- Sigurdhsson, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0No. It's not NERV yet just GHERIN. They will cause 2nd impact.
You need to watch that ***** again.
(In b4 "NGE is a made-up story not a template for the future")- nights0223, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Wow, Evangelion isn't a template for the future?? Thanks for clearing that up, I was getting worried.
- Sigurdhsson, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0No. It's not NERV yet just GHERIN. They will cause 2nd impact.
- islingt0ner, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3"How far down does ownership extend?" - Terry Pratchett.
story reminded me of this quote. - Fritzed, on 10/30/2007, -2/+3Without abandoned subway lines, there would be nowhere for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- crisrose, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1i thought they lived in sewers?
- stakepie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Reminds me of this:
"In a secret Paris cavern, the real underground cinema"
http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Guardian/0,4029,1299449,00.html
and this:
http://infiltration.org/
Does anybody have an English translation of Akiba's book? or more information?
please email: msd.6236@gmail.com - guyinjapan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The secret ninja headquarters!
Actually, in all seriousness, this totally wouldn't surprise me. I've seen the tunnels he talks about... the ones that lead off to "nowhere." Pretty interesting stuff. - edd17, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5"In London, for example, some lines are near the surface and others very deep, for no obvious reason."
The shallow ones were built earlier on using cut and cover methods and the newer ones could be built deeper because of new tunnelling methods. - PlasticFish, on 10/30/2007, -0/+2Tokyo 2?
- macdogger, on 10/10/2007, -5/+0Yeah, I got the 1000th digg!!
- hrvatski, on 10/30/2007, -0/+5In my hometown Brisbane, Australia there is a network of underground tunnels underneath a hospital in case of Japanese raids in WWII. It was fully equipped but never used and no one bothered to remove the equipment after the war, then carefully locked up.If you sneak yourself in through a ventilation shaft (one of the least pleasant experiences of my life) you find a preserved 1940's time capsule of a hospital. I suppose I should do it again and take some photos for digg.
In any case I suspect a lot of underground facilities were built in WWII out of paranoia in Tokyo, not to mention various other private projects and abandoned subway tunnels.- gijoel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I live in Brisbane too. Which hospital?
- hrvatski, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0It's Greenslopes hospital (I think, I haven't been there for 5 years). You'll see some smoke stack-esque ventalation shafts in a parking lot across the road.
- gijoel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I live in Brisbane too. Which hospital?
- YouAreNumber6, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Just don't go in those tunnels, they're reserved for Beauty and the Beast.
http://thankyoufortakingmycall.com/ - digger1942, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2There is a hidden city beneath Tokyo, according to the movie "Hellevator". Good movie! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0422370/
- otep, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1"When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, looks you crooked in the eye and asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."
-- Jack Burton
"Okay, I get the picture White Tigers, Lords of Death, guys in funny suits throwing plastic explosives while poison arrows fall from the sky and the pillars of heaven shake, huh? Sure, okay, I see Charlie Chan, Fu Manchu and a hundred howlin' monkey temples, and that's just for starters, right? Fine! I'm back! I'm ready, goddammit let me at 'em!"
-- Jack Burton
... - valoss, on 10/30/2007, -1/+1The Japanese will never have the technology to accomplish any such task.
- jcarleton, on 10/30/2007, -0/+2This is incredibly interesting. I hope the word gets out on this to actual mainstream media.
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