Comments on: Tokyo Skytree: Tallest, Most Japanese Tower In The World

By: Camzy123

Camzy123 — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 03:25:00 +0000

by the way, musashi in the edo period= the village area, the rest of tokyo essentially being forest etc.

By: Conpanbear

Conpanbear — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:22:00 +0000

I’m guessing the Sorakara mascot could be literally “from the sky”, hence the dress is sky (maybe with the white lines representing the tower) with a star hairdo. All perhaps to illustrate how tall this tower is. Or maybe it’s more arbitrary than this, and I’m looking too much into this!!

By: Jonadab

Jonadab — Thu, 24 May 2012 23:20:00 +0000

The Doolittle raid, as a tangible proof that we could drop bombs on Tokyo if we chose, accomplished two main things:

1. During the war, it provided a significant morale boost to US troops in the Pacific theatre.

2. Perhaps more importantly, subsequent to the war, it provides concrete evidence that we didn’t choose Hiroshima and Nagasaki as drop zones for fat man and little boy in order to be as mean and devastating and horrible as possible. If that were the goal, we could have picked Tokyo and/or Kyoto. The fact that we’d demonstrated the capability of dropping a bomb on Tokyo is significant because it casts light on the fact that we did NOT drop the H-bomb there.

By: Juliet

Juliet — Wed, 23 May 2012 20:47:00 +0000

Man, why are so many Japanese mascots that are supposed to be cute frighten me instead?

By: Hashi

Hashi — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:05:00 +0000

Haha, very true.

By: Ultra_Kraken

Ultra_Kraken — Mon, 21 May 2012 02:01:00 +0000

According to Wikipedia, names for the tower were submitted by the general public, narrowed down to six choices by a committee, and voted on again by the general public. “Tokyo Skytree” got the most votes.

As to its purpose, it’s a broadcasting tower for TV, radio, and cell phones. Tokyo Tower was built for the same purpose (save for the cell phones) back in the day, but now it’s too short compared to surrounding buildings to properly fulfill its main function, hence the need to build Tokyo Skytree