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Tokyo 2020 venues on track for completion, say organizers

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Sea Forest Waterway

I see no forest! or sea, come to that....

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There have been fears over the venue for tennis at the Tokyo 2020 Games, after the contractor hired to renovate parts of the Ariake Tennis Park went bankrupt in October.

A contractor went bankrupt? Must have forgotten to pay off the right folks!

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When you engage in human trafficking for labor, and push the chattel harder, anything’s possible (except prosecution). Anyway, we’ll see. These are, after all, the same people who used the victims of Tohoku for their agenda, and promised a cheap and compact games.

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Sadly the reality of the origins of the Olympics stadium story is never told in local media here :

https://www.dezeen.com/2016/01/14/zaha-hadid-copyright-unpaid-japanese-stadium-designs-tokyo-2020-olympics/

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Kenji, ah yes the stadium thing.

Hadid: they "don't want a foreigner to build in Tokyo for a national stadium"

Kuma/Ito: "it is perhaps difficult for architects from other countries to work in Japan"

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Kenji: The sad reality of the Olympic Stadium ..... and then Zaha died from the stress of those legal actions, and Kengo Kuma, who led the xenophobic movement to discredit Zaha's design, now takes undeserved credit as the architect.....

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A_crossToday  01:39 pm JST

Kenji: The sad reality of the Olympic Stadium ..... and then Zaha died from the stress of those legal actions, and Kengo Kuma, who led the xenophobic movement to discredit Zaha's design, now takes undeserved credit as the architect.....

And Tokyo 2020 is going to run a clean games? How can a games based on lies be free from them?

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I wonder what the real cost will be and who exactly will be making a big profit from all this.

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