A tall, pole-mounted, clock
Stands next to the tree,
Both measure time's
Passing differently,
The clock's face is
Simple and stark,
Above a memorial to the
Dead who made the park,
Which used to be ocean
Before it was filled,
And during that work
The men were killed....
https://carllafong.blogspot.com/2018/12/blog-post_30.html
Much of the eastern part of Yokosuka City, facing Tokyo Bay, sits on land reclaimed from the sea .... the landfill work really got started back in the 19th Century, after Yokosuka was selected to be the site of a major Naval Base .... and it continued, in stages, all the way through 1992...
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| (Light-yellow hatched areas are landfill, Navy Base is gray) |
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