Sport Tokyo - "Bay Side Village" in the heart of the city.
These two trailers in a fenced field near Odaiba mark "The Proposed Olympic Village." A few other people going by on bicycles also stopped to look and take photos.
These banners have been up all over for at least a year. This one, on a tennis court in Hibiya Park, is appropriately faded.
This is one of those cases where the simpler the words are, the harder it is to give a pithy translation, but I would suggest, "A new kind of Olympics only Japan could have." Ah, that sounds terrible. Shall we go more literal? "Because Japan, can do. New Olympics!"
See how all those t-shirts happen?
2 comments:
I got very used to seeing those signs all over the place. I can imagine Ishihara shedding some tears as he watches his staff take down all those posters. I on the other hand see it as a victory for lovers of peace and quiet in Tokyo.
Forget the Olympics, Japan should start its own Games with championships in video games, anime, competitive eating, breakdancing, Sasuke obstacle course, speech contests, featherweight boxing, fortune telling, mandolin, blind piano playing, stem cell research, and robot fighting. How much cooler would that be than the dusty and stale Olympics?
Now that would be 日本だからできる。Maybe an exhibition match of sleeping standing up?
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