Governor Koike says he will correct the “black box”… Projection mapping disclosures are “almost blacked out”.

The person who applied, the person who approved, the person responsible for the bid… all “the same person”!

The person who applied, the person who approved, and the person in charge of the bidding are all the same person. Is such a strange thing possible? It’s not really a bidding process at all, is it?

These are the astonishing words of Mr. Taka1984, whose X-account name is “Taka1984,” which were discovered through a request for disclosure of bidding documents for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s two-year, approximately 4.8 billion yen project for the Tokyo Projection Mapping Project.

The projection mapping project, which uses the exterior walls of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building and other buildings to project images, has been criticized on social networking sites as “wasteful,” “vulgar,” “looks like a newly opened pachinko parlor,” and “even though a soup kitchen for the needy is being set up near the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building.

Where in the world is the 4.8 billion yen being spent?

The breakdown of the 4.8 billion yen announced by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government is as follows: 1.65 billion yen for the metropolitan government building (PM) project (700 million yen in FY 2011 and 950 million yen in FY 2012), 2.04 billion yen for the PM development project in cooperation with the private sector (1.05 billion yen and 990 million yen, respectively), 960 million yen for the PM International Award Project (480 million yen and 480 million yen, respectively), and the Tokyo PM Promotion Support Council 200 million yen (060 million yen and 140 million yen, respectively). But these are rough amounts by location, not the “breakdown” that Tokyo residents want to know.

Incidentally, it was learned in an interview and report by “Good Travel News” in March of this year that this project is being managed by “Dentsu Live,” a “Dentsu” group company that is currently under suspension from bidding by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government until August ’24. So how were the orders placed with Dentsu Live and how were the amounts determined?

Taka1984 requested disclosure of the information, and what came to light was the shocking fact as described in the beginning of this article.

In the document “Amendment to the Agreement on the Implementation of Projection Mapping, etc. Utilizing the Walls of Buildings, etc.,” the Executive Committee applied for and received approval from the “Bureau of Industrial and Labor Affairs.

In addition, the document “Concerning the Implementation of the Planning and Selection Committee for the Outsourcing of Video Production, etc. for Projection Mapping at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in Reiwa 2023” lists Kazuhiro Mukai, Chairman of the Tokyo Projection Mapping Executive Committee, as the “Decision-Making Authority”. Furthermore, the selection committee members include the head of the Tourism Department of the Bureau of Industrial and Labor Affairs of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. The director of the Tourism Department at that time was Mr. Kazuhiro Mukai.

Mr. Mukai, who was the chairman of the executive committee and the director of the Tourism Department at the time, was also the chairman of the bidding committee. The person with the decision-making authority to decide on the bidding was the executive committee chairman himself.

Moreover, among the five members of the selection committee were two chiefs of the Tourism Department of the Bureau of Industrial and Labor Affairs of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. Including Mr. Mukai, three of the five members of the bid selection committee are related to the Tourism Department. Incidentally, the other two members who were not disclosed are said to be outside experts.

We have filed various disclosure requests with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, but this is the first time that the person who filed the request, the person who approved it, and the person in charge of the bidding process are all the same person,” said Mr. Mukai.

Actually, Taka1984 is a “male in his 30s (at the time) in the disclosure request cluster” who provided information to FRIDAY Digital in a previous article, “Disclosure request reveals that the Tokyo Metropolitan Government ignored 350,000 ‘signatures opposing the Olympics'” (July 2, 2009), and is also a member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s English He is the same person who continues to investigate the validity of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s English Speaking Test (EAST-J), the TOKYO Monument, and other items through disclosure requests.