soil contamination: The new site sits on the grounds of a former gas plant in Koto Ward, according to The Japan Times. When the metropolitan government signed a contract to buy the tract of land from Tokyo Gas to build the market in 2011, it agreed not to ask the company to pay for future anti-pollution measures. Okada made the remarks Saturday as one of four sworn witnesses summoned by a powerful metro assembly investigative committee to speak about issues related to the market's planned move to the Toyosu district. Okada said he thought the metropolitan government would be unable to acquire the land without such a compromise. The costs to be shouldered by Tokyo Gas for dealing with the soil contamination at Toyosu was set at 7.8 billion in 2011. He also said he believes the decision was approved by the governor and deputy governor at the time.
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