Torch relay poignant for father of 12-year-old tsunami victim

Run on brother

Unfathomable pain and anguish for those who lost anyone in that tsunami but losing a young kid like that is the absolute worst. You'd always feel guilty that you couldn't have been there to help and protect them. Then there are the 2,000 or so bodies that were never found.

Disgusting to give false hope to the people of Tohoku. But they have already been let down by Japanese governments, so, you get used to it as normal after a while.

all public figures are quitting from that torch relay.

nobody wants to show public support for the olimpics.

if this father don't wanna be responsible for more covid-19 deaths, he'll better bail out of that torch relay.

I can't begin to imagine this man's pain, and I applaud his choice to keep his daughter's memory alive.

But I do find the media's decision to manipulate this man's unimaginable pain into propaganda to promote the grotesquly unpopular, destined-for-failure Olympics utterly contemptible.

The sympathy card was played to land us this white elephant (Fukushima is completely under control, remember?), and tens of thousands still live forgotten by the government, with all the juicy construction contracts going to the well-connected in Tokyo, we now get told that we are obliged to support the Olympic boondoggle.

Now the message is clear - if you don't stop asking questions, and start clapping when the five-ring circus comes to town, this man's grief is on your conscience.

Utterly deplorable emotional blackmail. Shame on anyone involved in this.