Meiji Jingu Stadium, a near 100-year-old stadium in Tokyo that saw Babe Ruth hit a few dingers in the 1930s, is at the center of an environmental debate.
in Tokyo opened in 1926 and is currently the home of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of the Central League of Nippon Professional Baseball. The facility is in an area known as Meiji Gaien, a green patch in central Tokyo famous for an avenue lined with 150 ginkgo trees.However, the stadium could be demolished along with a nearby rugby stadium to make room for skyscrapers and a shopping area. The stadiums would be moved elsewhere.
She added that developers, construction companies and Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike"don't hear the voice of the people who live in this town." The plan to move the baseball to a new location would put the facility against the ginkgo trees, which environmentalists claim will damage the complex root system and potentially kill or damage trees.People gather in front of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, Sunday, April 9, 2023, as they protest the Meiji Jingu Gaien area redevelopment project.
Activists believe Koike has the power to cancel the project but has, instead, given developers the go-ahead to start the project.
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