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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It's annoying if we're going to be used for some kind of propaganda for the Olympic Games.
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snowymountainhell
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
Luddite
He is right.
robert maes
A voice of reason, what a nice change
Robert Cikki
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.
HBJ
Nice to hear, but "if"?! The propaganda started years ago during the bidding phase.