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Weekend Off-Topic: A Secret City Beneath Tokyo?

In a creepy, sci-fi kind of way, I thought this story was way cool. It's about a well-respected journalist whose career was mysteriously ruined after he published a book arguing for the existence of a massive, secret underground city beneath Tokyo.



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: "What was the military covering up?" New maps (No. 4) are full of inconsistencies: "People are still trying to hide things."

Actually, I think I've figured out what's down there. It's a massive underground storage facility for all the billions of rolls of film that the Japanese have gone through since the invention of the portable camera. I always wondered where on those islands they found room to store all those pictures; now I know.

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