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ORIPARA - Japan's Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games and Beyond

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Gavan McCormack
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Five and a half months ago (15 March), I wrote of the “Troubled Games of the XXXll Olympiad” in the context of the dual crises facing Japan: continuing, unresolved radiation emanating from the 2011 Fukushima quake/tsunami/meltdown and the COVID-19 public health crisis. The Games were supposed to resolve these crises, leading the world into a new era of recovery, hope and peace, but as they went ahead in July and August neither was even mitigated.

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Research Article
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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 19 , Issue 16 , August 2021 , e5
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Copyright © The Authors 2021

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Notes

1 “Tokyo, Okinawa no corona kansen no dai bakuhatsu wa Indo koe, shusaku made ni wa 2 kagetsu ka,” Nikkan Gendai, 14 August 2021.

2 For one statement, issued over the names of former ambassador to France Iimura Yutaka, Tokyo University emeritus professor and renowned sociologist and feminist Ueno Chizuko, and composer Saegusa Nariyuki, “Yushikasha no kai, Oripara chushi no seimei,” Akahata, 8 August 2021.

3 “Daily COVID-19 cases set records across Japan as counts surging,” Asahi Shimbun, 18 August 2021.

4 “Miyakojima, ‘sekai saiaku no kansenchi’ ni natta,” Okinawa Times, 19 August 2021.

5 “Jiminto ni shogeki no chosa kekka! Shugiin ‘60 giseki gen’ de masaka no kahansu ware,” Nikkan gendai, 25 August 2021.