Tokyo Tower...

[Bob Wright]

In my post regarding my R&R experience in Tokyo, I visited Tokyo Tower, which in 1959 was yet unfinished. I Googled it recently and noted that much of the steel used in its construction came from damaged/destroyed American tanks and armored vehicles from the Korean War.

When I was there only the lowest level of steel framing was in place, and the building at its base was in operation. There were stores and shops in that building. At the time it was finished, it was the tallest structure in Japan. Has since been eclipsed by another tower. It is built on much the same style as the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Seems like scrap steel to Japan has been the topic before?


Bob Wright

 

[gunzo]

In the first decade of the century it was China. They bought so much scrap that it drove up the prices considerably. That, their going online with major production of steel, & the EPA & Unions strangling our own steel industry is why we can no longer compete, but strangely enough, the cost of mild structural steel has risen 200% in the last 15 years.

The Chinese are now doing what the Japanese did from the 50's - 70's.

Makes 'ya wonder who will be the next rising power, & when.