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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2019.Tokyo 2020 venues on track for completion, say organizers
By Jack Tarrant TOKYO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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jiji Xx
I see no forest! or sea, come to that....
Yubaru
A contractor went bankrupt? Must have forgotten to pay off the right folks!
smithinjapan
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.
Kenji Fujimori
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/
Ascissor
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"
A_cross
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.....
sf2k
And Tokyo 2020 is going to run a clean games? How can a games based on lies be free from them?
Pukey2
I wonder what the real cost will be and who exactly will be making a big profit from all this.