Two-time evictee bears Olympic-size grudge

Japan Times ^ | SEP 15, 2013 | SHIGEMI SATO

[JerseyanExile]

Tokyo’s successful bid to host the 2020 Olympics made much of plans to re-use venues built for Japan’s last Summer Games. But for Kohei Jinno, redevelopment means eviction again — just like in 1964.

While much of Japan celebrated Tokyo’s victory at the recent meeting of the International Olympic Committee in Buenos Aires, 79-year-old Jinno was cursing his luck.

In 1964, his home and business were torn down to make way for an Olympic park around the main stadium for the Tokyo Games. Now he has been told he must move again to make way for the stadium’s redevelopment and expansion in time for 2020.

“I don’t want to see the Olympics at all,” Jinno said. “Deep inside, I have a kind of grudge against the Olympics.”

The first Tokyo Games marked Japan’s arrival as a modern country with a roaring economy. It was a chance for Tokyo to shine.

Futuristic Olympic venues shot up all over Tokyo as a bullet train was built, along with a metropolitan highway network and an airport monorail.

The energy and symbolism could not be missed: Japan had risen from the ashes of World War II.

[nickcarraway]

He should Walk, Don't Run away from there.

[gaijin]

I have a kind of grudge against the Olympics.”

Ya know what this means in, "I'd prefer dying to complaining"-Japan?

It means his fantasy is that every person connected to the Olympics be battered in egg and bread-crumbs and then slowly lowered into BOILING OIL.

[The Working Man]

It means his fantasy is that every person connected to the Olympics be battered in egg and bread-crumbs and then slowly lowered into BOILING OIL.

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Or introducing them to their ancestors via his own ancestor’s blade.

[discostu]

Mmmm, tempura olympic official.