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University of Hyogo Professor Kimura Reo, commenting on an NHK poll showing that 63% in areas of northeastern Japan hard hit by the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident did not feel the Tokyo Olympics helped boost regional reconstruction efforts.
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People in the disaster zone feel strongly that recovery efforts were used as a pretext to bring the Olympics to Tokyo.
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smithinjapan
Gee.... do you ya think so? Only took... what... 8 years to figure that out?
zurcronium
I am sure that just the opposite occurred, constructions was diverted from Tohoku to Tokyo. Another example of the Gold Metal disaster the Tokyo Olympics were with the biggest damage to Japan of course being the superspreader aspect of the Olympic flop.
virusrex
Well, everything points directly to this was the purpose from the beginning. The same with the shameful display on Hiroshima.
ShinkansenCaboose
But they are making a tunnel for the water. Nice job.
Aly Rustom
took the words right out of my mouth..