Mark Schilling Japan CorrespondentPlanning is underway to build a massive theme park in Yokohama, near Tokyo, according to Japanese media reports.
If completed the park will be similar in size to Tokyo Disneyland.According to Yokohama city hall sources, cited by Asahi Shimbun, the operator of the park will be an unnamed Hollywood studio.The park will be sited within a 242-hectare plot that was previously used as a U.S.
military communications facility but was returned to Japanese control in 2014. The land has a mixture of public and private ownership.
Much of it is used for agriculture.Sotetsu Holdings, a transportation and real estate group, is currently engaged in talks with private landowners.
Read more on variety.com