Sandwiched in the middle are the Tokyo Summer Olympics which, under The Olympic flame has arrived in Tokyo, but the new timetable of July to August 2021, not in the manner envisaged by the organ- will finish barely six months before the Bei- isers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. [...] Following on for the re-scheduled Olympics to be a “bea- from Beijing 2008, the Tokyo Olympics will con of hope” for the world sounds like a rhe- undoubtedly sustain this process of rebal- torical flourish to mask his disappointment ancing the power of the “East” against the at the postponement, but it also contains a “West” in the corridors of the IOC. [...] No one from the Ministry of Trade and Indus- try – the present-day Ministry of Economy, The nuclear mafia have worked to erase the Trade, and Industry – which advanced the Fukushima Disaster from the memory of nuclear agenda in lockstep with the admin- our citizenry. [...] sector, both of which helped to spread the In every era, to avert the eyes of the citi- 10 Japan The Fukushima Disaster and the Tokyo Olympics zenry from the real hardships that confront led to the postponement of the Tokyo Olym- them, governments have had recourse to pics for one year. [...] The rise and fall To explore the number of participants in the number of participants over the years for the rest of the continents, please use the mirrors the major events of modern history.
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