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'I was evicted to build an Olympic stadium... twice' - DP - 07-18-2021
Kohei Jinno was evicted from his family home so the 1964 Tokyo Olympics stadium could be built. He was sad, but proud to contribute to a moment of national triumph.
When it happened again 50 years later though, it was hard not to see official indifference.
Aged 80, he and his wife Yasuko were forced from a tight-knit public housing community in the shadow of the stadium, ahead of the 2020 games, which start this month after a year's delay.
Jinno said the eviction of roughly 200 families, many of them elderly, came from nowhere.
They received about 170,000 yen, or $1,500, which a Tokyo city official confirmed was standard. But it cost $9,000 to move.
"The Olympics are being held a second time and to be honest there are painful feelings for those of us who lived there and had to leave our hometowns. Why couldn't they have been a little more compassionate in their approach?"
https://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/evicted-build-olympic-stadium-twice-133113936.html
Re: 'I was evicted to build an Olympic stadium... twice' - NewtonMP2100 - 07-18-2021
.....thought that they respected the elderly......????
Re: 'I was evicted to build an Olympic stadium... twice' - Sarcany - 07-18-2021
NewtonMP2100 wrote:
.....thought that they respected the elderly......????
Reproductive rates are down, with negative population growth for the last decade.
30% of the population is elderly.
(We're heading in that direction, too. A few years behind them.)
If everyone's old, what's so special about it?
Re: 'I was evicted to build an Olympic stadium... twice' - N-OS X-tasy! - 07-18-2021
Kinda like the fellow who survived the Himoshima atomic bomb only to find himself in Nagasaki a few days later…
Re: 'I was evicted to build an Olympic stadium... twice' - Racer X - 07-18-2021
Eminent Domain is a bitch sometimes.
When the Supreme Court affirmed it here in the US, one of the Supreme Court justices lost their vacation beach house to a redevelopment project to revitalize the neighborhood. The Justice knew it was going to happen, but voted to affirm because the law was clear. Now, proper compensation is a whole other subject.
Same thing with the Cosby release. It had to happen. The law was clear.
Re: 'I was evicted to build an Olympic stadium... twice' - NewtonMP2100 - 07-18-2021
.....so like a twice baked.....potato.....????
Re: 'I was evicted to build an Olympic stadium... twice' - Racer X - 07-19-2021
except you WANT a twiced baked potato.