There wasn't any consideration. If there'd only been one example of 'you're being asked to move, could you please possibly cooperate? Instead, it was pretty much'we're having the Olympics, you need to get out.'

Even one time can be a hard experience, but twice? that must be gut wrenching, specially now that is for the covid games.

sounds more like China than a quasi democratic country.

How awful for Jinno san.

It seems nothing has changed in 57 years in Japan. Yes the specific subject is different but the attitude of the government towards the what they see as lowly citizens and residents of Japan has not changed.

It’s only for the smaller part, that a country afterwards puts pressure, @Ali Rustom. You can see in the current developments and insisting in proceeding with the games, who really puts pressure all the time. Yes, it’s like China, but more exactly it’s the traditionally strong in sports block of the (former) communist countries and liberal globalization enforcement hemisphere. You surely have an imagination what I mean although it’s difficult to describe in only a few words here, taking care of the censors.

It was public housing. I absolutely feel sorry for him, and it's a shame more sensitivity wasn't applied in the eviction process.

In the end though, public housing isn't really yours and if a decision is made that the space is better used for something else, for the greater public good, then that's they way it goes.

(Whether the Olympics is for the greater public good is, of course, very open to debate)

Japanese people are kind didnt you know? Oh....

Aly Rustom: "sounds more like China than a quasi democratic country."

Well, as much as some on here claim to hate China (and REALLY didn't like Bach saying they were Chinese, despite the very same people saying the guy in the hotel with the "gaijin elevator" sign wasn't racist because Japanese don't know what racism is), they seem to really wish to encapsulate it in many cases. The government certainly does here.