SEVEN RIDDLES SUGGEST SECRET CITY BENEATH TOKYO

Saturday, March 1, 2003

Shun Akiba, a former high-level foreign reporter, has identified hundreds of kilometers of Tokyo tunnels whose purpose is unknown and whose very existence is denied.

During the Gulf War in 1991, Shun Akiba was one of only two foreign journalists reporting from Baghdad, along with Peter Arnett of CNN. With such experience and expertise, it would be reasonable to imagine him in great demand right now. Wrong.

Shun Akiba, a former high-level foreign reporter, has identified hundreds of kilometers of Tokyo tunnels whose purpose is unknown and whose very existence is denied.

Shun is on some kind of invisible blacklist. His book "Teito Tokyo Kakusareta Chikamono Himitsu" ("Imperial City Tokyo: Secret of a Hidden Underground Network"), published by Yosensha in late 2002, is already in its fifth edition. Yet Shun has found it impossible to get the media to take serious note, write reviews or offer interviews.

This is very strange because he has a great story -- evidence of a network of tunnels and possibly an underground city beneath Tokyo that the public is totally unaware of. "Why am I ignored? Can I be on to something, and there is a conspiracy to silence me? I believe so."

Shun's father was a journalist with the Asahi newspaper. "I hated his lifestyle. Preferring to work in entertainment, I steered myself into TV. Finding myself in the news section, I decided to go abroad."

Working for Asahi TV, he covered the U.S. military invasion of Panama, leftwing guerrilla actions in Peru, peacekeeping activities in Cambodia, and the Gulf War as a foreign correspondent. Then in 1996, he decided to go freelance, recasting himself as a writer. "I wrote a mystery novel, called 'Director's Cut,' never thinking I'd go back to journalism."

What changed his life was finding an old map in a secondhand bookstore. Comparing it to a contemporary map, he found significant variations. "Close to the Diet in Nagata-cho, current maps show two subways crossing. In the old map, they are parallel."

The journalist in him taking over, he sought out construction records. When responses proved defensive and noncooperative -- "lips zipped tight" -- he set out to prove that the two subway tunnels could not cross: "Engineering cannot lie."

This inconsistency is just the first of seven riddles that he investigates in his book. The second reveals a secret underground complex between Kokkai-gijidomae and the prime minister's residence. A prewar map (riddle No. 3) shows the Diet in a huge empty space surrounded by paddy fields: "What was the military covering up?" New maps (No. 4) are full of inconsistencies: "People are still trying to hide things."

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/member/memb...1a1.htm&1=0

Interesting find..

I hope something comes out if it, theres alot of conspiracys about underground tunnels and whatnot all over the world..

Some say sercret alien bases, other says homes for the homeless....

Well, if you think about Japan being in the Ring of Fire as well as Mt. Fuji being there, if there are tunnels, why can't they be natural occuring lava flows that have dried up?

thank you mr. killjoy!

Lava dries up?

I'm assuming that the reporter guy has already taken "natural causes" off the possibility list...

That's MISS killjoy to you! LOL

What? The mainstream media ignores a crank?! This is news!

--Jaylemurph

Fair enough, lava tubes are a well-known geological phenomenon, a (very) quick look over Google doesn't turn up any cases in Japan though. Doesn't mean they're not there though, and it makes a whole lot more sense than a "secret city".

Frankly what does it matter if the maps are different? Could easily be a printing error. I hope that overall the author's claims have more to them than that.

the public should storm the buildings and tunnels,demanding on mass-that the goverment should let them in..(although has anyone seen the film CREEP??? -enough said)

It's Japan's government built safehaven for the 2012 Nibiru crossing

That's really cool. I saw pictures of a big tunnel that was built for water. Or something. >.> It was really really cool looking. D:

'nolimit_man' date='Jan 3 2008, 07:12 PM' post='2074752']
SEVEN RIDDLES SUGGEST SECRET CITY BENEATH TOKYO

Is the book translated into English? Who published the English edition?

Please post about this intriguing series of questions. Thank you.

If what you are saying is true you can certainly understand the veracity with which so called 'skeptics' attack things like this find. Somtimes I swear they are working for a 'higher' cause; as though they are paid to debunk everything of significance.

I'm surprised none of them has 'attacked' this yet! LOL

I like that. Meet a ridiculous theory with an even more ridiculous one.

Well, why not.



Damn, you're on to me. The Illuminati hired me and several others to watch over this forum and silence anybody who's onto the truth.

Know what our higher cause is? Trying to preserve any shreds of logic, reason, and intelligence that believers may have remaining in their heads.

This comes as a surprise. I always thought there was a giant, cylindrical concrete peg running through the Earth with Tokyo on one side and New York on the other.

Did you know that during WW2 maps were printed in Germany and Russia that were deliberately incorrect? In Russia it was common practice to print and issue incorrect maps in massive quantities. This was done to make it as confusing as possible for invading armies to find there way around. Weird, but true. Maybe this is a case of the same type of thing.

Could be, the Japanese have very good reason to be cautious about giving the public information about subway tunnels, given the past.

... Or for the dead, similar like the French Catacombs.

is there any news on this... newer than 2003? just wondering

i likeittht was really cool

Wow, if there are cities and tunnels under Tokyo that would be so unique! Just like every other moderately old city i the world. Difference is that most other large cities charge people a bundle of money to tour their underground cities.

Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, Portland, Paris, Rome, etc... they all have undergrounds... only goes to show that Tokyo likely does too since most modern cities are built over much older cities.

i suppose we'd have to see more on this book to say more?