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Japan's 'Recovery Olympics' message fades

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Tokyo 2020 was supposed to be the "Recovery Olympics," showcasing rebuilding after Japan's 2011 disaster, but a spectator ban has left Fukushima residents feeling their efforts were all in vain.

Recovery from what? Japan it's still in another new wave.

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Instead of spending money on dispossessed Japanese the government is throwing it away on….sports.

What a sick joke!

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I'm not sure about anyone else, but the sculpture in that picture looks like something that would be found in Kabukicho.

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The money is never about people, just a few downtown will be, have been lining their pockets, I feel for the people of fukushima.

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Maybe the people of Fukushima will let their displeasure be known by voting for another party.

(Gets cramp in face muscles trying not to laugh).

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@kurisupisu

Instead of spending money on dispossessed Japanese the government is throwing it away on….sports.

What a sick joke!

Very well stated and the adjectives I would use would result in immediate removal of my post.

Just imagine how many jobs could have been created perhaps jobs to build houses for those who lost theirs. How many shops or businesses could have been financed?

But no, instead the Japanese government decided that it was better to spend this money to further the interests of and line the pocketbooks of the IOC, NBC, etc.

What a racket? Recovery Olympics? Yes a sick joke

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"There's no way for us to help people understand what's going on in Fukushima,"

There are plenty of ways, and quite frankly, hosting a sporting event when no foreign spectators are allowed in the nation anyway (except sponsors and politicians, who are of course immune to the virus) wouldn't help with awareness. If anything with no spectators allowed, it increases the need for broadcasting and sending out any info on the area and the event. Sure, it means people there might have to make more effort if they want a message to be sent, and it's not just going to fall in their laps, but the opportunity is there. The game itself is still on, is it not?

As for the "recovery Games", it was also supposed to be Games of the atomic bombings and to show how Japan has been bombed, and now the Games that have beaten the virus (which is now spreading as much if not more than ever, with new variants).

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Recovery from the 2011 disaster???!!! Has any of these AH visit to the disaster hit areas and actually look around??? Obviously not, as there isn't any real recovery!!!

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Now, @kurisupisu 7:20a & Tokyo-Engr 8:35am, is NOT the time for our restraint!

*- responding to @kurisupisu 7:20am: [Instead of on dispossessed Japanese the govt is throwing $ away on….sports. What a sick joke!] @TE 8:35am; “Very well stated and the adjectives I would use would result in immediate removal… *

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Even *AFP here *is too prudent in their headlines: - Japan's [Tohoku] Recovery message “fades” - ??

Fades” ?? How ‘contrived and reserved’ by this media, when there should be outrage!

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Hopefully, @Tokyo-Engr, media will NOT silence any opposition in these final days before the Games.

Restating from yesterday w/@virusrex 9:25am: - Ethically, by any ‘legally’, available means,…

- “…every protest against the obvious business of the Games should be heard”…

… in every in open-forum, every printed-word of our mockery that those profiting from Tokyo’s Games deserve.

Some others can quietly participate by boycotting the programming and patronizing the products of participating sponsors. We should choose to parody those involved at every opportunity.

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Hold baseball games under near normal conditions with capacity restraints but Olympics events are too dangerous. A consensus of insanity.

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Israel, has immunized 60% of the population. There is now a surge in cases, from the delta variant. In this portion of a video, one of the chief physicians combatting the virus, indicates: stopping visitors from abroad is a key to preventing the spread of the virus. In Japan, contrary to established protocols and strategies to prevent Covid-19, the not-so-aptly named Recovery Olympics, hosts a hundred thousand and more foreigners into the country contrary to any sane health policy, all at the behest of the IOC, which more than apparently cares not one wit about Japan.

https://youtu.be/iP679HeBAbI?t=54

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"There's no way for us to help people understand what's going on in Fukushima," said McMichael, 

‘Sorry that’s the plan, if people knew, then national embarrassment, might be too much, for the LDP to handle.

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The whole Olympics fiasco has turned out to be nothing more than a blatant insult to the people of Tohoku.

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It could have been, IF they would have postponed until 2022.

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I remember in 2011, people all over Japan was donating money to the Fukushima cause, you could go to almost any convenience store to donate.

Then rumors were floating that the people of Fukushima were not getting the money, but being lost in translation along the way.

Was that money being embezzled by bureaucrats? Or was it actually being used to help the affected areas?

It turned off a lot of people from donating money at that time.

Originally these games were "supposed" to show how much Fukushima has recovered from their disaster. Now? Who knows what they are "supposed" to represent? All we are seeing is greed, lies and deception.

One has to wonder how much of if any of the Olympics proceeds will actually end up being used among the Japanese people and their problems in 2021.

And how much of those proceeds will just line the pockets of the IOC, JOC, Suga, or whomever.

They just love to make it really tough to help support such causes.

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"Recovery Olympics" was just pretext to beautify doubtful Tokyo 2020 that was realized with many falsehood and bribery.

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Nobody's even talking about Fukushima in the Olympics. It's all about Covid now

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Covid Recovery Olympics should be hope less !!

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sakurasukiToday  07:07 am JST

Tokyo 2020 was supposed to be the "Recovery Olympics," showcasing rebuilding after Japan's 2011 disaster, but a spectator ban has left Fukushima residents feeling their efforts were all in vain.

Recovery from what? Japan it's still in another new wave.

kurisupisuToday  07:20 am JST

Instead of spending money on dispossessed Japanese the government is throwing it away on….sports.

What a sick joke!

This is PATHETIC to the max. Last year the US had the most deaths because of an arrogant tin god stirring up trouble while in Japan things were better and PM Suga did the right thing by postponing the Games.

Now the US has a responsible government and the Japanese PM Suga this time is cowering under IOC greed-induced pressure and being a total wussy about it, shirking his duties and endangering the lives of his citizens and foreigners who come to the Olympics. And he could've acted like a man on it again but he isn't. Remember than when he runs for reelection.

Things are really bad because of the virus, but I think at least kids should have been able to see some top-class baseball players,"

That's right now, see some sports. See some people get exposed and endangered from the virus risks they take. Take a note from this, kiddies. Don't be so greedy and stupid as the older generation apparently is in this case.

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Recovery, there? In contrary, the once available possible resources have even been withdrawn and were splitted for the nuclear reactor works as well as for construction of the venues for the Tokyo games. Some nice rebuilt train stations , known from a famous TV drama , are more the exception of the rule than a substantial recovery attempt.

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