Cloudy Weather or Smoke Exhaust From a Coal-fired Plant?

How dirty! These are two futons on the dirty ouside wall of a hospital domitory near chemical factories giving off chemical smell, which is under the control of a steelmaking company famous for that downtown coal-fired plant, which is electrufiying only its own plant, not private residence.

I must go there.

I must go there.

Not Just in That City

The residents near the zoo with so much green may know as good manners....

Lots of Greenery in Kobe city, Jpan

There's lots of greenery in Kobe city, Japan, such as Sorakuen and Oji Zoo,but...

Coal-fired Heat Power Plant Near the Residential Area

The controversial coal-fired heat power plant by the world-famous steelwork company is just about south of a quake-stricken redeveloped zone, forested with condominium buildings including including two 30-story ones and a municipal office.

A city worker says irresponsibly, "Don't worry. They say 'It's a mere steam plume'. "

See Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage, Gray Sky: Smoke from Centrally-located Coal-fired Plant & Nicotine-addicted,
and Kobe citizens' Group's Objections

Kobe City Mayoral Election

Today is the election day in Kobe City of 1.5 million people

with budget deficit of

2.7trillion yen or

$245.7trillion.

For 60 years deputy mayor has been elected mayor because of the organized vote of the city employees' labor union and the support of both the ruling and the opposition parties in the city assembly and the national Diet,
with both the citizens who traditionally not interested in politics and the nonvoters complaining all the time.

Therefore, none had been to blame for any mismanagement.
For example Kobe Airport was constructed amid the public and media criticism despite the 3 airports including the new one within a 25 kilometer radius.

And it has given up free elderly transportation pass.

This time, it matters whether a reformist candidate is elected over the incumbent mayor, who is supported by Japan's ruling Democtatic Party.

I don't know why the party recommends the incumbent reling on bureaucracy-oriented politics and public-works projects because it has promised initiative by politicians to reform vices of bureaucracy in the general election for the Lower House in this summer.