KAMAKURA, Oct 30 (Information On Japan) –
A beloved café in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, is susceptible to closure after the town ordered it to vacate its location. Requires its preservation have intensified because the courtroom battle begins.
Since opening in 1955, the “Venus Café” has been a fixture alongside Kamakura’s shoreline, providing views of the ocean alongside burgers and Mexican delicacies. Over the a long time, it has additionally served as a filming location for a lot of tv dramas and the movie Inamura Jane, directed by Southern All Stars’ Keisuke Kuwata. Now, this standard café faces an unsure future.
Mayor Takashi Matsuo commented in Might: “We should reevaluate the preferential association that permits sure companies to repeatedly lease public area. Allowing one firm to monopolize its use lacks equity.”
The café operates inside Kamakura Seaside Park, paying roughly 2.3 million yen yearly for the city-owned land, which additionally homes different services, together with a resort and a pool. Nonetheless, Kamakura Metropolis has knowledgeable Venus Café that it intends to terminate the contract, ending the café’s working rights.
Jiro Yoshizawa, the café’s proprietor, responded: “We have been out of the blue informed to vacate on account of non-compliance with seismic requirements.”
Metropolis officers argue that in a significant earthquake, the constructing might collapse, endangering lives. Disagreeing, Yoshizawa commissioned his personal seismic evaluation, which discovered no structural points, and he stays decided to struggle for the café’s survival.
A 20-something patron expressed dismay: “The environment right here is great. It could be actually unhappy if it disappeared.”
Final month, the case escalated additional.
The Kamakura Metropolis Council’s Building Standing Committee reported on September 13: “We’re informing you {that a} lawsuit has been filed with the Yokohama District Court docket, in search of damages and an order for Venus Café to vacate the premises.”
Town is requesting the return of the premises and about 7 million yen in damages, with an extra day by day price of round 20,000 yen for park use till eviction is accomplished.
On the first listening to held on October twenty fifth on the Yokohama District Court docket, Yoshizawa maintained his stance: “Why are we the one ones being compelled to go away? I simply need equity. I additionally consider in preserving the cultural essence of Shonan. I wish to defend it.”
Supply: ANN
