Yeah, the vending machines still vend the daily essentials. There used to be one that sold porn mags not too far from my house. I guess the internet has done that one out of business.
As for what they measure livability on I have no idea. I was talking to a friend about this result and he...
In the years I've lived here there have been hundreds of Earthquakes and none bar the one in tohoku have had any effect on the city. Even the Tohoku one didn't do any damage to Tokyo. It would take an absolute monster of a quake, right under the city, for Tokyo to be seriously put out by an...