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@hangorinnokai Incredible hubris. @inosenaoki signed the lopsided #Tokyo2020 host city contract, handing so much power to the International Olympic Committee & making Japanese taxpayers responsible for cost overruns. Now he says those who oppose the Games will change their minds once they begin
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Japan discloses more #COVID19 cases among #Tokyo2020 Olympics arrivals (beyond 2 members of Ugandan delegation): a French national, an Egyptian, a Sri Lankan, & a Ghanaian all tested positive. The public was not informed of the positive tests at the time upi.com/7107506t
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#Tokyo2020 volunteers in line to get first dose of vaccine before Olympics (but not the second). Olympics Minister: "First round of vaccinations will provide temporary immunity" for volunteers, and "the Games were not designed on the premise of vaccination in the first place" twitter.com/sportsnavi/sta…
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Wow. Japanese government officials announce they are working on a plan to allow #Tokyo2020 Olympic athletes who are identified as a close contact to a positive #COVID19 case to participate in the Games even during their 14-day quarantine period. HT @Ei_Yas news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/c8b8d…
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Kohei Jinno was evicted from his Tokyo home *twice* to make way for the Olympics: ahead of the 1964 Games & again before #Tokyo2020. Harrowing story on the how the Olympics shattered his community, & all he received was $1,500 to relocate. By @emlies16 reuters.com/world/asia-pac…
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Tokyo Metropolitan Government brazenly ignores @utsunomiyakenji's petition against the #Tokyo2020 Olympics. It had more than 350,000 signatures when he submitted it. 開示請求で発覚！35万人「五輪反対署名」を東京都が無視していた friday.kodansha.co.jp/article/191223 #政治 #東京オリンピック
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@utsunomiyakenji The petition to cancel the #Tokyo2020 Olympics now has more than 435,000 signatures (more than any other change.org petition in Japan's history) 人々の命と暮らしを守るために、東京五輪の開催中止を求めます @TeamUtsuken change.org/p/cancel-the-t…
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❓Shinzo Abe, the former Prime Minister of Japan, claims, "Anti-Japanese people strongly oppose hosting the Olympics." Specifically, he cited the Communist Party & the Asahi Shimbun newspaper❓ #Tokyo2020 安倍前首相「反日的な人が五輪開催に強く反対」 mainichi.jp/articles/20210…
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🔥"The Games are less a sporting event than they are a scheme to transfer public wealth to private coffers―a budget-busting monstrosity that diverts billions of💰in public money away from actual public needs."
-@Travis_Waldron @HuffPostSports on #Tokyo2020
huffpost.com/entry/tokyo-ol…
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Here is footage of the moment when an anti-Olympics protester in Japan squirted water at the #OlympicTorchRelay to symbolically snuff out the #Tokyo2020 Olympic torch. Police swarmed her & she was detained. Ibaraka Prefecture. HT @emi_onuma1_16 twitter.com/parieruchan/st…
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There is a new petition circulating in Japan that demands the International Olympic Committee, Japanese Olympic Committee, & Japanese Government cancel the #Tokyo2020 Olympics 同キャンペーンの英語版をアップしました。海外への拡散をお願いいたします！ chng.it/bcRdSntW
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"Many medical experts here do not think they are prepared [for #Tokyo2020]. You even have Japan's government advisors warning that the Olympics could lead to an explosion of cases here in Japan & push the medical system here past its brink."
-@selinawangtv
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Wow, this is unprecedented. As International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach arrives in Japan, the hashtags #BachGoHome #バッハ帰れ are trending in the country. HT @daisy_ivy_ys
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Anti-Olympics protest in Tokyo starts in a few hours in front of #Tokyo2020 Organizing Committee offices at Harumi Triton Square (6pm Tokyo time). Expect chants of #BachGoHome #バッハ帰れ Follow @hangorinnokai for details
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My piece on 5 myths & the Olympics for @washingtonpost
1) Host cities make money
2) Cities are eager to host the Games
3) Games are a path to riches for US athletes
4)Olympians have the right to free expression at Games
5) #Tokyo2020 is safe from #COVID19
washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-m…
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In Tokyo, anti-Olympics activists will protest International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach & "the Olympic Mafia" at the 5-star Hotel Okura where the IOC is staying #BachGoHome #バッハ帰れ [Protest starts at 13:45 Tokyo time] twitter.com/kojiskojis/sta…
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There is so much anti-Olympics dissent bubbling up in Japan
This article describes four people seeking an injunction to cancel the #Tokyo2020 Olympics over #COVID19 concerns, asserting the Games violate their constitutionally guaranteed right to live english.kyodonews.net/tokyo/news/202…
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"Protesters flooding the streets of Japan & the growing chorus across the world are right: #Tokyo2020 should be canceled. There’s no justification for holding it. But that’s also true of Games for decades...Cancel the Olympics—for good."
-@nataliesurely newrepublic.com/article/162952…
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Global @Ipsos survey of 28 countries reveals 57% oppose staging #Tokyo2020 Olympics:
🇰🇷86% opposition
🇯🇵78%
🇦🇷69%
🇨🇦68%
🇧🇷68%
🇬🇧66%
🇲🇽65%
🇨🇳59%
🇦🇺59%
🇫🇷58%
🇺🇸48%
🇮🇳46%
🇮🇹42%
🇷🇺39%
🇹🇷29%
Full report: ipsos.com/sites/default/…
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@Ipsos To say that people in Japan🇯🇵are down on the #Tokyo2020 Olympics, is to make a massive understatement
This survey found that 78% of the country opposes staging the Olympics and 68% is uninterested in the Games ipsos.com/sites/default/…
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"The Olympics is the last thing we should be having in the middle of the #COVID19 pandemic...The Olympics...must be stopped."
-Dr. @aokima33 of Japan Women's Medical Association 医師・公益社団法人日本女医会理 HT @waka__chang @tkatsumi06j
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Here is video of protester shouting "You're a liar!" at International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach during an Olympic event in Tokyo
Bach responds, "Sorry, I cannot understand you. If you have something to say, write to me." 📹 @hangorinnokai
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[CW: violence, abuse]
The musical composer for the #Tokyo2020 Olympics' opening & closing ceremonies (Keigo Oyamada) revealed he brutally bullied & even tortured special needs students from elementary through high school. By @jakeadelstein @ChihiroKai1 japansubculture.com/japans-olympic…
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Protesters went to the 5-star hotel where International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach is staying to present him with a petition to cancel the #Tokyo2020 Olympics. The policing of dissent was intense. 🧵by @galbraithian999 explains what happened...twitter.com/galbraithian99…
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At anti-Olympics direct action attempting to deliver petition to cancel the Olympics to the 5-star Hotel Okura where the International Olympic Committee is staying, the police stopped them & forcibly dragged the protester into the park🎥 @galbraithian999
Political scientist. Author of NOlympians (@Fernpub) & Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics (@VersoBooks). Poetry lover.