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Tokyo's Mean Streets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

David McNeill
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Is a new safety ordinance designed to save shoppers from transvestites, flashers and mass killers, or an Orwellian attempt to crush public protests?

Last month a group of activists called Dystopia Tokyo called a protest against what they described as a “draconian” new city ordinance by conservative governor Ishihara Shintaro.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 7 , Issue 18 , May 2009 , e1
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