Vice Japan’s translator is out this morning, so please bear with the language for a few minutes.
Above weird building is a sewage plant in Osaka designed by Vienna artist Friedrich Stowasser. Do you want to know how much building cost is? 80 billion yen. In English, that is 925 million dollars. So what you might spend on, say, a new Pakistani embassy, the entire yearly infrastructure budget of Massachusetts, or Oprah Winfrey’s Oxygen network (if you are NBC), we spend on hilarious shit factories. But it is not the most poor-taste disposal center in Osaka.
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