Born in Japan to a Haitian father and a Japanese mother, Osaka has lived and trained in the United States since age three...
Doesn’t even speak Japanese.
I just read the description of the Ceremonies, as woke as woke can get. Won’t bother watching. I think the average Japanese person would have hated it, and I can’t say I would blame them. Games should have been cancelled anyway.
The VAST majority of athletes in every country is training, living and attending university in the United States.
I fully believe that if there WERE people in the stadium when Osaka was revealed, there would have been an audible gasp, and likely a lot of murmuring. I doubt there would’ve been anyone booing, since that really isn’t a Japanese thing.
I did watch the whole shebang, and I noted that she didn’t even really look like she was even a little bit excited. She seemed to move in a manner that felt ‘lazy’.
I wouldn’t be surprised if a bunch of Japanese call for the firing of whoever made the decision to name her.