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For Akitoshi Yoshida, his dream for the future is to return to life the way it was before his neighborhood was devastated by the Jan. 17 earthquake. Surveying the rubble of the bathhouse he ran for 43 years, Yoshida says all he wants is a new bathhouse, built on the site of the old one. Hell give authorities the land, throw away the pride of being master of his own place, if only he can once again stand at the door and call out “Irasshaimase!” — “Welcome!” — to people stopping by for a hot bath. “I’ll work for a monthly salary,” said Yoshida, 65. “You build it, I’ll work there.” In Kobe and neighboring ar eas ruined by the earthquake, thousands like Yoshida dream that life could somehow return to the way it was. City planners want to move on, look ahead. The emerging debate has high lighted old and painful themes in Japanese urban development. Cities tend to be ugly, cramped jumbles that give little sense of planning. The powerful have his torically dictated how cities are built, with little initiative taken by citizens. Tetsuo Tamai, a city plan ning historian at Chiba Univer sity, said Japan still suffers from the lingering mentality of the medieval castle tow whose shape would be dictaif by the local baron. “The people on top make tin plans, and force the people::! the bottom to live according'* them,” Tamai said. Finding a new way in Kol will not be easy. Efforts toimpfcit a new urban vision have not bee* welcomed so far. Protests broil* out in mid-March as residents a* nounced the Kobe city goverl ment’s approval of a developme-l plan for five key areas devastatiy by the quake. Many prefer to rebuildtk| hodgepodge neighborhoods,:, stead of making way for. apartments, better roadsai:! parks. 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