Tokyo Olympics

[Conor Dary]

Meanwhile....in FT today...

Japan fears Seoul will drag Olympics into wartime dispute....

Japanese officials worry that South Korea is targeting next year’s Tokyo Olympics as a new front in the bitter bilateral dispute between the two countries over wartime forced labour.

[ATK]

Not sure what that means for Japan and/or the Olympics?

[bhall]

Not sure what that means for Japan and/or the Olympics?

It will bring more bring global attention to the dispute. I'm not sure there is any tangible effect.

[jazzcyclist]

Japan has hosted 2 Olympics since the Korean War ended. Why now and why did South Korea co-host the 2002 World Cup with Japan if this is still such a contentious issue?

[tandfman]

Japan has hosted 2 Olympics since the Korean War ended. Why now and why did South Korea co-host the 2002 World Cup with Japan if this is still such a contentious issue?

Japan has actually hosted 3 Olympics since the Korean War ended--Tokyo '64 and two Winter Games (Sapporo '72 and Nagano '98). In any event, the end of the Korean War in 1953 is not relevant. The key date was 1945, when the Japanese occupation of Korea ended at the end of WW II.

[jazzcyclist]

Japan has actually hosted 3 Olympics since the Korean War ended--Tokyo '64 and two Winter Games (Sapporo '72 and Nagano '98). In any event, the end of the Korean War in 1953 is not relevant. The key date was 1945, when the Japanese occupation of Korea ended at the end of WW II.

Doh! Of course, Japan itself was under occupation during the Korean War. We're talking 3 Olympics and 74 years, not 2 Olympics and 66 years. Thanks for the corrections.

[Conor Dary]

"Tensions between Japan and South Korea flared last November when the South Korean supreme court awarded damages against Japanese companies for forced labour during the second world war. Japan says compensation was already paid in a 1965 treaty and has sought international arbitration. South Korea says the 1965 treaty does not block individual claims and declines to appoint arbitrators."

[Master Po]

In other news:

https://www.insidethegames.biz/artic...ved-to-sapporo

[rhizobium]

In other news:

https://www.insidethegames.biz/artic...ved-to-sapporo

If there's another heat wave like this year the events in the stadium in Tokyo are gonna be brutal.

[jazzcyclist]

Note that the last time Tokyo hosted the Olympics they were held in the middle of October.