Here in Japan, the long, disastrous run-up to the Olympics is weighing on everybody.
AdvertisementI live in Nagoya, a large city 200 miles away from Tokyo. COVID is a little more virulent in the capital than it is here; on the eve of the Games, we’re just starting to see the light of day. The state of emergency here ended on July 11, and restaurants are inching their closing times later and later. Some of my more cautious acquaintances are starting to get out.
Under different circumstances, the Olympics could have been a celebration of overcoming the coronavirus. It didn’t happen. And after two years of reporting on the Olympics, I’m not grateful that these Games are about to come at all. Most people living here aren’t, either. According to polls, the majority of Japanese have been opposed to this whole damn thing for more than a year.This isn’t the first time an Olympics in Tokyo has struggled to get off the ground.
treating the president of the International Olympic Committee to an all-expenses-paid 20-day trip to Japan , and swinging a backdoor deal with Benito Mussolini. But Japan withdrew after its costly and violent invasion of China forced domestic austerity measures. Then in 1964, the Tokyo Olympics were considered cursed, due to Olympic construction taking place on land—much of it reportedly haunted—that belonged to the Tokugawa clan, the rulers of Japan during the Edo Period.
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