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Osaka the Beautiful Live from Hong Kong, 5 April 2005: Unrelenting ugliness. I mentioned it before, but Osaka is ugly ugly ugly. I've seen some pretty dismal cityscapes, (no, wait, let me rephrase that), some awful dismal cityscapes, but Osaka takes the biscuit. I don't know how they do it, for each individual building isn't bad in itself. Clean, neat, well-designed, well maintained - each building is something to be proud of. Certainly Cari's block of flats looked every bit as more...

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