kontextmaschine:

Something American urbanist praise of Japanese real estate development forms needs to grapple with is that the call for frequent construction and demolition is leveraged to sustain a small construction work sector as a sink for the would-be underclass, almost in place of a welfare system “floor”. (This interestingly means construction labor is often articulated with organized crime, but in a manner completely different from how it is in the US)

I mean given the postwar American administrative order the occupation authorities were almost certainly getting reports from labor economists on the distinctions with the New York and Italian systems at the time