“This is like a colony by rich people, ‘neoliberalism’ people,” said Riken Yamamoto, recipient of the 2024 Pritzker Prize — often called the Nobel Prize of architecture — during a recent talk at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan. “What is being built is completely unusable by people in the community.”

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By Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO, Jan 16 (Reuters) - A railway power outage in Tokyo disrupted the morning commute for roughly 673,000 passengers Friday as two main lines servicing some of the world's busiest stations were halted.