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 Tokyo Wants 2020 OlympicsPosted on Apr 10, 2011
Tokyo has been through a lot, but the mega-city is aiming high in the reconstruction department by vying for the 2020 Olympic Games. Tokyo blew about $176 million on its failed attempt at winning the 2016 Games, but might have an edge this time around owing to tsunami sympathy. Earthquake and tidal wave aside, if members of the International Olympic Committee sneak a peek at any manga, they might decide 2020 and Tokyo are a time and place best avoided. Just make sure they don’t see “Akira.” —PZS
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By Queenie, April 11, 2011 at 11:18 pm Link to this comment
What a friggin’ waste of money these Olympics are.
Phooey!
Report thisBy FRTothus, April 11, 2011 at 4:13 pm Link to this comment
Perhaps they will offer a new medal: Plutonium
Report thisBy TDoff, April 11, 2011 at 11:36 am Link to this comment
If Tokyo gets the games, nuclear fishin’ should become an Olympic sport.
Report thisBy Kanamachi, April 10, 2011 at 7:11 pm Link to this comment
Now that Tokyo citizens have spoken and re-elected the boarder line crazy Ishihara Shintaro as governor he seems to think that it was a vote of confidence to once again waste millions of our tax money on his crazy scheme to have the Olympics in Tokyo again.
Most people here, however, don’t want them. They would rather the government spent the money on creating jobs for real people in need, not on Ishihara who is more concerned with his reputation then what the city of Tokyo wants and needs.
But the election offered no choice between the right-wing Ishihara—who claims to have a direct line with heaven and its unhappiness with the Japanese, thus the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, and a field of candidates wackier then Ishihara
Report thisis. Many of my friends just stayed home out of apathy, and although i do not agree that they did the right thing, I certainly understand.