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The demonstration march "The Tsukiji Market will last for more than 100 years"

Hello, everyone loving Japanese food and culture.

Have you ever been to the Tsukiji Market?

As you know, the Tsukiji Market is well known as the world biggest fish market and as a symbol of Japanese food culture. And it has been contributing to keep our food safety for more than 80years, so it is very important place for Japanese.

Now the Tsukiji Market is facing a relocation crisis.

Tokyo Metropolitan Government decided to relocate the central food market from Tsukiji to Toyosu on October 11 next month.

However, many experts on food distribution and architecture have pointed out serious problems about the new market.

For example, the land of Toyosu is highly contaminated with chemical substances, such as, benzene, lead, arsenic, hexevalant chrome and mercury.

It may cause a cancer.

And also. the level of the water under the ground in Toyosu exceeds safety level.

If a big earthquake occurs, it may cause a land liquefaction.

Most of these problems have been never resolved until now.

They are still remaining in the new market place, Toyosu.

In this June, benzene of 170 times as large as an environmental safety standard was found from the ground water in Toyosu.

So we are against the relocation of the Tsukiji Market.

We think the procedure of the relocation to Toyosu is illegal and the relocation to Toyosu will destroy the food distribution system in Japan and Japanese food culture.

And also we think this relocation may cause a serious crisis of the distribution of foods in Japan.

So we need to save the Tsukiji Market.

But Tokyo Metropolitan government anounced that they would start destroying the facilities of the Tsukiji Inner Market on October 18, just one week after the opening day of the Toyosu Market.

We have to stop the destruction of the Tsukiji Market.

On September 19, workers and families of the Tsukiji Market, including intermediate wholesalers, have filed an administrative lawsuit to ask cessation of the relocaton to prevent the injury of goodwill due to relocation to Toyosu.

The plaintiff group of this litigation, including the Tsukiji Okamisan Kai (a group of the women workers at the Tsukiji market), and consumers will conduct the demonstration march asking the cancel of the approval of the Toyosu market. It is scheduled to depart from the main gate of the Tsukiji market and head to Hibiya Park via Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in Kasumigaseki.

In this demonstration march, many people who love Tsukiji are going to participate in addition to those working in Tsukiji.

If you have a time, please participate in our action to protect the Tsukiji market.

Now it is a very important time whether the Tsukiji market can survive or not, but unfortunately most of Japanse do not know the real situation of the Toyosu market.

Let's appeal together the stunningness of the Tsukiji Market to those on the road!

For more detail information, please confirm as bellow.

The demonstration march “The Tsukiji Market will last for more than 100 years”

Date: Saturday, September 29

Time: The rally start at 12: 00. The demonstration march departure at 12: 30
Meeting place: beside the main gate of the Tsukiji market
Route of the march: from the Tsukiji market to Hibiya Park via Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries