2020 Japan Olympics

[Coligny]

Will we reach a tipping point where even by olympic standards the corruption and incompetence generate a collapse of the theatrics and finally make "the bucks stop here" ?

[matsuki]

Olympic bidding and such being corrupt is kinda a given....it's more the shit Yoko mentioned that bothers me. Very few positive things happen at ridiculous costs. The wasted money doesn't exactly flow where it's needed either. Then you have all the lazy IP thievery and this strong handed bullshit with the fucked dealings with the wicked witch of the middle west...and to make things worse, it's no longer Tokyo footing the insane bill, it's Japan. Corruption is hardly unique to Japan...but it's definitely "traditional" when it's SOP.

[Russell]

And the situation looks like it's about to get worse ...

Japan "sponsorship money" to IAAF may have influenced 2020 bid

MUNICH (Kyodo) -- In a report released Thursday by the World Anti-Doping Agency, an independent commission mentioned evidence that several million dollars in sponsorship money reportedly paid by Japan to the International Association of Athletics Federations may have swayed then-IAAF chief Lamine Diack to favor Tokyo's bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Important is whether Tokyo paid more money to the doping agency preceding the voting than it usually does as its annual membership.

But it does not look good, I admit.

I predict, once again, that the 2020 Olympics will not be held in Tokyo.

[chibaka]

This should be interesting

IOC asks for transcripts suggesting 2020 Olympic bid bribery

http://www.japantoday.com/category/spor ... id-bribery

[kurogane]

I still giggle whenever his name is in print..............Richard Duncan Pound............tee hee

[wuchan]

The new stadium is cheaper, if you don't include seats....

The Japan Sport Council is considering seeking donations from the public to pay for the installation of wooden seating .....

The current plan calls for installing plastic seats at the new National Stadium at a cost of some ¥2 billion.

If the seats are to be made of wood in order to stay true to the natural theme planned for the new stadium, the costs are expected to increase to ¥5 billion or ¥6 billion.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/0 ... rYyOjapGRs



Aren't the tax payers already paying? Now they want us to donate?

[Russell]

The new stadium is cheaper, if you don't include seats....

The Japan Sport Council is considering seeking donations from the public to pay for the installation of wooden seating .....

The current plan calls for installing plastic seats at the new National Stadium at a cost of some ¥2 billion.

If the seats are to be made of wood in order to stay true to the natural theme planned for the new stadium, the costs are expected to increase to ¥5 billion or ¥6 billion.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/0 ... rYyOjapGRs

Aren't the tax payers already paying? Now they want us to donate?

Good way to test how popular this stadium actually is.

And I suppose the wood will be advertised as coming from Fukushima.

[Coligny]

bu bu but... baby jeebus told me radiation wuz safe and just dematerialized gods farts...

STOP CONFUSING ME WITH YOUR SCIENCE. GODDAMNUD HERETIC...

[Russell]

bu bu but... baby jeebus told me radiation wuz safe and just dematerialized gods farts...

STOP CONFUSING ME WITH YOUR SCIENCE. GODDAMNUD HERETIC...

I'm not talking about the science, you naive, I'm talking about the PR.

I don't put it beyond Abe to proudly announce that all those seats were made from wood from Fukushima to signal its complete recovery from the nuke disaster.

And then expecting that a foreign audience will laud his great efforts to establish Fukushima as an example of how to handle those emergencies...

[Mike Oxlong]

bu bu but... baby jeebus told me radiation wuz safe and just dematerialized gods farts...

STOP CONFUSING ME WITH YOUR SCIENCE. GODDAMNUD HERETIC...

I'm not talking about the science, you naive, I'm talking about the PR.

I don't put it beyond Abe to proudly announce that all those seats were made from wood from Fukushima to signal its complete recovery from the nuke disaster.

And then expecting that a foreign audience will laud his great efforts to establish Fukushima as an example of how to handle those emergencies...

Is that the lumber left over from the Daimonji-yaki debacle?

[FG Lurker]

I predict, once again, that the 2020 Olympics will not be held in Tokyo.

The anti-bribery BS is just a show for the proletariat in developed nations. Things will die down and the payers/receivers of bribes will get a little smarter about keeping things quiet. Business as usual will continue. There are too many countries where bribery is a standard way of life for the result to be any different.

[TennoChinko]

Well, this is about as much as you're going to get from mainstream news:

Olympics minister denies cash-for-favors allegation involving English teacher dispatch agency

Olympics minister Toshiaki Endo, who formerly headed a shake-up of Japan’s English education program, has admitted taking cash from the founder of a Tokyo teacher dispatch agency but said he did nothing wrong.

The amount is supposedly about Y9 million from the co-founder of the English teacher dispatch agency that the press generally refuses to name.

However it's not too hard to discover it was Yasuo Niiyama, co-founder of INTERAC (which is was acquired in 2010 by private equity firm ADVANTAGE PARTNERS- headed by Richard Folsom) and now part of publicly-traded company , Link & Motivation Inc (TSE:2170).

Take a look at Link and Motivation Inc.(TYO:2170)'s stock price in the past several weeks... the Kiyohara meth bust news tsunami lifts all boats.
https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1& ... 0ATR24_ADQ

[Taro Toporific]

... it's not too hard to discover it was Yasuo Niiyama, co-founder of INTERAC (which is was acquired in 2010 by private equity firm ADVANTAGE PARTNERS- headed by Richard Folsom) and now part of publicly-traded company , Link & Motivation Inc (TSE:2170)...

One fuckwad Mormon,Yasuo Niiyama, sold his syphilitic sack-of-shit company INTERAC to another ebola-dogdoo LDS zombie, Richard Folsom, who has an Undergraduate Degree in Japanese and Economics from Brigham Young University.

Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel
"The world has need of willing men/Who wear the worker's seal/Come help the good work move along/Put your shoulder to the wheel."

To paraphrase: "If you meet the Mormon in the road, kill him."

[TennoChinko]

To paraphrase: "If you meet the Mormon in the road, kill him."

Yes... they've done that apparently:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_massacre

On September 11th 1857, between 120 and 140 men, women & children were massacred in Utah, when Mormons attacked and slaughtered a wagon train with the help of local Southern Paiute Indians; the bodies were stripped of belongings by Mormons and sold off at local auctions for profit...

[wagyl]

To paraphrase: "If you meet the Mormon in the road, kill him."

Yes... they've done that apparently:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_massacre

On September 11th 1857, between 120 and 140 men, women & children were massacred in Utah, when Mormons attacked and slaughtered a wagon train with the help of local Southern Paiute Indians; the bodies were stripped of belongings by Mormons and sold off at local auctions for profit...

One man was executed for his part in the massacre, leaving behind nineteen wives* and 56 children.

* Three of them named Nancy, and three of them named Mary. It must be awfully complex running those families.

[Russell]

To paraphrase: "If you meet the Mormon in the road, kill him."

Yes... they've done that apparently:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_massacre

On September 11th 1857, between 120 and 140 men, women & children were massacred in Utah, when Mormons attacked and slaughtered a wagon train with the help of local Southern Paiute Indians; the bodies were stripped of belongings by Mormons and sold off at local auctions for profit...

One man was executed for his part in the massacre, leaving behind nineteen wives* and 56 children.

* Three of them named Nancy, and three of them named Mary. It must be awfully complex running those families.

He probably kept them apart through his sense of smell...

[Coligny]

You saw that movie too !?

[Russell]

You saw that movie too !?

In 4-D.

[Coligny]

You saw that movie too !?

In 4-D.

sooo.... monday, 9:24... a bit earlier than expected in the week to start projectile vomiting...

was it at a drive in theatre ? (i still have half a wall not dripping with puke...)

[Samurai_Jerk]

Japan worried about 2020 problem, or life after the Olympics

Japan is gearing up for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with gusto, investing in everything from stadiums to electric cars, and expecting an economic bonanza from a construction frenzy and an influx of visitors.

On the face of it, hosting the Olympics is a big win for Japan at a time when its economy seems besieged by intractable problems. The Bank of Japan estimates the economic perk at 30 trillion yen ($250 billion), many times even the highest estimate of the costs to prepare for and run the event.

But for some, 2020 is another manifestation of what has been going wrong in Japan for decades. Instead of modernizing the economy and taking other steps to address the powerful headwinds of an aging population and shrinking workforce, the government has turned again to its well-worn playbook of borrow and hope.

Discussion and fears about what Japan can turn to for an economic lifeline after the Olympics have become so commonplace it's even been given a name: the 2020 problem.

Japan "will overstretch itself," William Saito, an entrepreneur and technology expert, said of the spending for the games. "It will quite possibly be the straw that broke the camel's back," he said. "Everyone is predicting that it will be that catalyst." blah, blah, blah, blah, blah ....

[dimwit]

Many games result in a post Olympic bust, some do not, Calgary and Barcelona being good examples of the later. The only thing you can really go by is the country's track record with previous Olympic games. And if Nagano is anything to go by, Tokyo is not is store for an easy ride.

[Taro Toporific]

2020 Olympics organizers again misfire with cauldron conundrum
The Japan Times | March 4, 2016
Japan has won gold again — in the Olympic missteps category.
The designers of the new National Stadium apparently forgot to include a cauldron for the Olympic flame.
And they cannot just stick it anywhere: The interior is largely lined with wood.
Officials are blaming a “lack of communications” between the government and other parties, but say they will fix the problem.
A multiparty leaders’ coordination commission for the 2020 Games says it will set up a review team to decide where to put the flame.
More...

olympics-stadium.jpg

[Samurai_Jerk]

2020 Olympics organizers again misfire with cauldron conundrum
The Japan Times | March 4, 2016
Japan has won gold again — in the Olympic missteps category.
The designers of the new National Stadium apparently forgot to include a cauldron for the Olympic flame.
And they cannot just stick it anywhere: The interior is largely lined with wood.
Officials are blaming a “lack of communications” between the government and other parties, but say they will fix the problem.
A multiparty leaders’ coordination commission for the 2020 Games says it will set up a review team to decide where to put the flame.
More...

olympics-stadium.jpg

[legion]

Many years ago my dear brother went camping but forgot to take a tent.

This almost tops that in my little world.

[Coligny]

[wuchan]

no seats, no place for the fire.... no wonder it was cheaper than Zaha's design.

[Russell]

no seats, no place for the fire.... no wonder it was cheaper than Zaha's design.

The big question is how much will they charge for the flame stand...

[Coligny]

no seats, no place for the fire.... no wonder it was cheaper than Zaha's design.

The big question is how much will they charge for the flame stand...

Price of the original rejected design minus price of the current design = price of the glorified candle holder

(Aka adding insult to injury i think...)

[legion]

hard day at the convenience store was it?

[Samurai_Jerk]

WHY JAPAN IS EXCITED ABOUT THE 2020 TOKYO OLYMPICS

If all goes according to plan, visitors to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games will be awestruck before the sporting contests even begin. Attendees will be shuttled around the city by self-driving taxis. They’ll enter a newly built national stadium with the swipe of a pass, get verified by facial recognition software and be guided to their seats in one of 10 languages on a smartphone app. They may gaze up at the night sky from anywhere in Tokyo to see an artificial meteor shower show unfolding 50 miles above their heads.

Concerted efforts are under way to realize these and other innovations and emulate the enviable legacy of technological superiority and reputation rebuilding that emerged from the last Summer Games Japan hosted, in 1964. Olympic organizers, innovators, entrepreneurs and academics are working on ambitious projects that could enhance Japanese society and beyond long after the closing ceremony.

“The Olympic Games is a sports festival, but also it’s a chance to show the innovation of scientific technologies,” says Toshiro Muto, chief executive of Tokyo’s organizing committee. He says the committee is planning high-tech features like hydrogen-powered vehicles for athlete transportation and smartphone tools to aid tourists. "We have the potential to make this Olympic Games wonderful [and one] that the people of the world are going to admire.”