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So basically Bach can enter Japan and avoid quarantine while most of us has to do quarantine ? I do have the japanese vaccine certificate from the ward office and yet I still have to do PCR test and do quarantine when I will come back. It is beyond stupidity...

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Emperor Bach has no clothes and he doesn't know it.

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So this guy can come and go as he wishes, no quarantine for His Highness.

He didn't even have the decency of staying in his hotel room between the rounds of games.

Mr Suga, be courageous : tell Bach that the immig would reject him. He can stay home and watch the games on the telly.

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Bach's insipid behaviour and the "relaxing" of quarantine requirements is further proof that there are two sets of rules, and that this pandemic is being over-hyped to enforce the difference.

Time for some peaceful but strong civil disobedience.

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Bach coming back? No!

Turn around and go back home!

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what if they all booed him outside of the stadium.

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This man is shameless after all the controversy he caused during his first visit. King Bach will ,of course, be enjoying his luxury hotel accommodation and private body guards all paid by Japanese tax payers and not out of his pocket. His face in this photo turns my stomach. Time to retire and start counting the millions you have in your bank account. What a disgrace to sporting.

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he will come to the opening then runaway cuz he know its an infection hotspot over there

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He has too be the most unpopular person in Japan, poor guy

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Does anyone even want him here aside from Suga and his cronies?

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Will there be more photos of him inGinza shopping with his bodyguards? The populous loves those pictures.

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Are there any Japanese unemployed "artists" and other assorted no-hopers protesting Shogun Bach's return, the Paralympics in general or spraying liquids in disabled people's faces while conducting the Paralympic torch relay?

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Wave your hands in the Air because we don’t care!

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I wonder who has got more guts, the Taliban or that Olympic mafia. lol

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BOOOO

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PhilToday  07:35 am JST

During the Olympics people were interviewed on the streets of Tokyo and asked why they were out and about. The answer was the Olympics are happening so I thought it was OK to be out.

Why let people just walk into Japan just for a sports event without quarantine when you are trying to get the Japanese population to stay at home?

So are you saying that before the Olympics, everyone stayed at home? I guess you're not living in Tokyo.

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Back to his ¥3 Million/night Presidential Suite. On the taxpayer.

Despicable.

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U are not welcome. U are costing us alot of money plus u make unkept promises.

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Even i don’t like him , he has the same rights to walk around like everyone else! And whats wrong when he spent back a little money in stores? By the way , it was not Bach who applied the Olympics for Japan. It was the wish of japanese IOC. So if you go in the bears cave, don’t wonder to be eaten.

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He's bach!!! !

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For the first time in this schmuck’s career he may actually need those bodyguards…

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Wouldn't it have been better and safer for him to have stayed in Japan during the break between Olympics and Paralympics? At the very least it would have been a symbolic gesture of doing his bit to reduce the likelihood of spreading the virus.

What does the head of the IOC need to do outside of the host country between these 2 events anyway?

It sure looks like he couldn't wait to leave after the OIympics were over. I wonder why...?

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Ready to vaccuum the receipts and expenses from the Japan tax-payers and NBC again.

Bottakuri Danshaku back for seconds...

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Yup, he's back for his 2nd salary. (sarcasm).

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Good thing he already did his 3 day quarantine on his first trip. He won't need to suffer through that a second time!

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groan.... forcing a country so his company can make money.

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If I was Bach I would've just stayed in that hotel downtown for the duration. He probably had free Wifi and eggs cooked any way he wanted.

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To collect his cheque!

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Pictures and videos of his visit were widely shared on Japanese social media sites, with many complaining of double standards.

Of all the double standards associated with the worldwide pandemic response that have given people a naked glimpse of the oligarchic corporatocracy , this is small change.

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During the Olympics people were interviewed on the streets of Tokyo and asked why they were out and about. The answer was the Olympics are happening so I thought it was OK to be out.

Why let people just walk into Japan just for a sports event without quarantine when you are trying to get the Japanese population to stay at home?

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He is annoying person who only wastes tax of Japan.

who paid security costs when Bach visited to Hiroshima were prefecture and city of Hiroshima, not IOC or Tokyo 2020 authorities.

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So it’s taken a pandemic for you to realise that there’s one rule for the haves, & another rule for the have nots ?

Always knew this but irony is with this mixed messaging and communication the govt folks still wonder why the people are not following their instructions and staying at home...

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So it’s taken a pandemic for you to realise that there’s one rule for the haves, & another rule for the have nots ?

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And the king Bach is back in town on 23 Aug, will join opening ceremony on 24 Aug for paralympics - this fact is missing in above report but was covered in yahoo news yesterday and he will depart Japan on 26 Aug.

Another of classic - Rule for thee but not for me!!!

With just one night stay at his hotel he is allowed to move around and join the opening ceremony the very next day without any quarantine requirements - why?

Even international Japanese nationals are required to do 14 days quarantine - why this exception? Will the media ask this simple question to our competent leaders here?

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