2020 Japan Olympics

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I reckon it would be better lit up by a sumaho-mesmerized zombie tripping over something they didn't notice while walking and the phone going up in flames would be a more apt way to lit the torch nowadays.

[Taro Toporific]

‏"かりやすいイラスト。東京五輪ｲﾗﾈ。"
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[Mike Oxlong]

Robert Whiting: Remembering Tokyo's other scandal-plagued Olympics
2020 is looking a lot like 1964 as venues run over budget and behind schedule

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are nearly four years away, but already Japan has suffered huge embarrassments...

[legion]

‏"かりやすいイラスト。東京五輪ｲﾗﾈ。"
by @hetare4445

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Only problem with that image is agencies is plural

[Taro Toporific]

Tokyo Olympics organizers: New National Stadium overlay to cost double bid estimate
The Japan Times | 2017-March-10

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[legion]

The amakudari after the olympics is going to be excessive

[Taro Toporific]

Sixty-eight percent of Japan is forests, most which most are vastly underused and mismanaged...But oh no, the 2020 brainiacs need to import lumber, sheesh.

Tokyo urged to stop using cheap timber in centrepiece Olympic stadium
Reuters | May 10, 2017
---A village leader from Borneo urged Japan on Wednesday to stop building its Olympic stadium with cheap timber that he says is obliterating traditional life for his indigenous people.
Bilong Oyoi, whose Penan people live in Borneo's Malaysian rainforests, handed a petition of 140,000 signatures to Tokyo's embassy in Bern, Switzerland, demanding it halt use of deforestation-linked tropical timber in its Olympic venues.
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[Taka-Okami]

What are you whining about. Trees are a renewable resource, way better for the env than brick and concrete!

[matsuki]

Japan's government has said the wooden design was chosen over competing proposals due to its fast construction time and sensitivity to the environment.

[Coligny]

Japan's government has said the wooden design was chosen over competing proposals due to its fast construction time and sensitivity to the environment.

The word they searched was "expandable"

[legion]

Sixty-eight percent of Japan is forests, most which most are vastly underused and mismanaged...But oh no, the 2020 brainiacs need to import lumber, sheesh.

Yeah, just a fucking moment, I thought the whole point of using wood was to begin the process of returning Japan to its historical diverse woodland.As I understand it there used to be much greater diversity and a lot more deciduous.

[matsuki]

Sixty-eight percent of Japan is forests, most which most are vastly underused and mismanaged...But oh no, the 2020 brainiacs need to import lumber, sheesh.

Yeah, just a fucking moment, I thought the whole point of using wood was to begin the process of returning Japan to its historical diverse woodland.As I understand it there used to be much greater diversity and a lot more deciduous.

TIJ.... Image > reality

As a few locals how they feel about this and most don't know or care....and will likely still be talking about how unique, wonderful and ECO the build is the next day

[Mike Oxlong]

Nothing that a hot glue gun, a mountain of disposable chopsticks, and Japanese ingenuity can't do! I would have used popsicle sticks...but I guess that's cultural appropriation.

[Taro Toporific]

Tokyo Olympics Cost Twice the Initial Estimate
The Associated Press | June 2, 2017
TOKYO--Taxpayers beware: The cost of hosting an Olympics is likely to be far more than advertised.
The price tag on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has ballooned to nearly twice the initial estimate, even after a major cost-cutting effort.
A major reason is that cities exclude large amounts of associated costs when they submit a bid to host the Olympics.
“Those numbers in the bidding file are almost fiction,” said Shinichi Ueyama, a Japanese public policy expert who led a Tokyo government investigation into the Olympics’ cost.
The bid figures include only the core components, such as the main facilities, so that the bids are easier to compare. Building design, security measures, transportation and other costs are largely excluded.
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[matsuki]

When do the 頑張れ東京 stickers get printed?

[Russell]

‘Eternal’ Olympic flame from 1964 Tokyo Games went out briefly 4 years ago, officials admit

A flame from the 1964 Tokyo Olympic torch that was supposed to be kept alight eternally actually went out four years ago, red-faced officials confessed on Monday.

The flame, housed in a sports training facility in the southwestern Japanese city of Kagoshima, has been touted as a “sacred Olympic flame” since 1964 and received widespread media coverage when Tokyo was awarded the 2020 Games.

But it turns out the flame went out in November 2013, two months after Tokyo won the Games, and was hastily re-lit, according to the then head of the facility.

“At that time, I could not say something that could destroy (people’s) dreams,” added the official, who declined to be named.

“I saw with my eyes that the flame went out on Nov. 21,” he added. “We re-lit the fire and kept it going for about two weeks, but I thought that was not good.”

At that time, there was considerable media interest in the flame as Japan had just been awarded the 2020 Games, he said.

“In addition, we kept receiving a number of requests from various people to use the ‘sacred flame’ for town festivals and weddings. I decided to come clean,” he said.

Local Kagoshima official Mitsuru Horinouchi also said the flame was extinguished for good in November 2013.

The facility now keeps a different flame — ignited by a magnifying glass and sunlight in December 2013 — at a camp site.

“We now have a display panel explaining the that existing flame was created after the flame from the 1964 Olympics went out,” the current head of the facility Etsuko Tabata told AFP.

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[matsuki]

How fitting....once the papers have been signed, the eternal extinguished for good, only to be replaced by another, younger flame to keep the motivation.

[legion]

Not enough Bangles on this forum

[Coligny]

Tssss... retard...

[legion]

I think you mean Rickenbacker

The man is playing the tambourine, that's how far we have come in 30 years

[Taro Toporific]

Parades of rats in Ginza will coincide with the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to entertain the tourists!

Tsukiji races to exterminate rat infestation before fish market relocation
The Japan Times | Oct, 28, 2017
As the Tokyo Metropolitan Government works with industry groups to finalize the date for relocating the famed Tsukiji fish market next year, it is also mulling how to exterminate the hordes of rats infesting the current location...
...the rodents at Tsukiji — mostly brown rats — will probably migrate to neighboring areas if eradication efforts fail, Yabe warned. Those rodents can easily reach the upscale Ginza district, located only a few minutes’ walk from the market, he said.
“They may roam in nearby areas for a while, possibly for a year or so,” and will only settle when they realize there is enough food to feed all of the newcomers, said Yabe, who is also the author of “Nezumi ni Osowareru Toshi” (“Cities Attacked by Rats”). “It could coincide with the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, when many foreign tourists are expected to visit Ginza.”
One of the biggest concerns is that growth of the rat population may usher in infectious diseases, including leptospirosis spread by rodent urine either through direct contact or contaminated soil or water, Yabe said.
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[matsuki]

One of the biggest concerns is that growth of the rat population may usher in infectious diseases, including leptospirosis spread by rodent urine either through direct contact or contaminated soil or water, Yabe said.

How will they get that traditional organic umami at the new site?

[Russell]

Debate grows over paying compensation to Olympic ‘volunteers’

[legion]

More people will be volunteered than volunteer.

I believe Dentsu own the broadcasting rights, so no doubt they will volunteer some underlings to show willing.

[Taro Toporific]

Have you seen the new slogan on the new Tokyo taxis<snark>?

"START YOUR IMPOSSIBLE"

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japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/13/business/roomier-blue-cabs-added-tokyo-fleet-ahead-2020-olympics/

[matsuki]

STOP THE WASEIEIGO

[legion]

Have you seen the new slogan on the new Tokyo taxis<snark>?

I suspect it was formulated after careful consideration of Adidas' "Impossible is nothing"

https://japantoday.com/category/national/over-110-000-volunteers-needed-for-tokyo-2020

Over 110,000 volunteers needed for Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Paralympics

TOKYO
The Tokyo metropolitan government and the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games have announced that they will be calling for over 110,000 volunteers to assist in the Games, an increase of 30,000 from the initially anticipated number.

Details of volunteer positions will be unveiled in July and applications will begin in September, Tokyo Gov Yuriko Koike said over the weekend, while actual face-to-face interviews with the applicants will be held from February 2019, Fuji TV reported.

If you can get the guys building the stadium to volunteer you might have an argument, otherwise, go fuck yourselves.

Students, schoolkids, company employees will all be volunteered by salivating sycophants, for the company employee it will mean meeting their normal targets, then putting in more overtime, if they are lucky they might get a ticket to watch the canoeing in Fukushima, travel, bed and board not included.

[Grumpy Gramps]

I'd gladly volunteer. If they'd volunteer to pay me a princely salary, I'd be open to offers, if they happen to need a dog-sitter or cowherd or something.

[matsuki]

I'd gladly volunteer. If they'd volunteer to pay me a princely salary, I'd be open to offers, if they happen to need a dog-sitter or cowherd or something.

Maybe that's the impossible they're speaking of?

[Taro Toporific]

"START YOUR IMPOSSIBLE"

I suspect it was formulated after careful consideration of Adidas' "Impossible is nothing"

Actually, "START YOUR IMPOSSIBLE" sort of makes sense when that engrish slogan is seen as part of Toyota 's global campaign called "MOBILITY FOR ALL."
mobilityforall.com/global/en/

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