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It's annoying if we're going to be used for some kind of propaganda for the Olympic Games.

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Yoshiaki Suda, mayor of Onagawa town in Miyagi Prefecture, an area that was devastated by the 2011 disaster, expressing his opposition to using the Olympics as a "sign of recovery" for the region.

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Sadly, the greed and graft for ‘the big event’ have overshadowed the needs of the people after ‘the big disaster’. However, these people and the region are routinely used as a ‘source of interest’ to generate headlines and, sometimes, surreptitiously, divert attention from the Olympics’ true costs through ‘opinion’ polls that the government will never read or, listen to. - Fukushima hopes Olympic torch relay will show world it is not 'nuclear wasteland'- Mar. 24  - “Do you think people are losing interest in the Tohoku reconstruction effort, considering how many natural disasters there have been in Japan since then?‘ Mar. 12

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He is right.

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A voice of reason, what a nice change

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Yoshiaki Suda is a fairly young guy, no oyaji and has a pretty rational attitude with a realistic perspective. For this reason, he will not be heard by the local or national government, because "he has no experience". Sad but true.

And well educated too.

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It's annoying if we're going to be used for some kind of propaganda for the Olympic Games.

Nice to hear, but "if"?! The propaganda started years ago during the bidding phase.

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