07-18-2021, 12:49 PM
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-...13936.html
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-...13936.html