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Japan has been preparing for the Olympics for years. As much as I oppose the Olympic Games in general, the government is spending lots of money on restoring tem
by chrysoprace 5y ago
Japan has been preparing for the Olympics for years. As much as I oppose the Olympic Games in general, the government is spending lots of money on restoring temples and preparing for a tourism boom as a result of the games. It's not an easy thing to just "cancel".
- rodgerd 5y agoSure it is. It's just that the IOC, the Japanese government, and the various athletic orgs value the money in this over, you know, not having a global super-spreader event.
- kfprt 5y agoAren't Shinto temples somewhat continuously rebuilt anyways as part of the religion?
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- Clewza313 5y agoNo, that's just the Ise Grand Shrine.
- chrysoprace 5y agoSome Shinto and Buddhist shrines/temples are, but I know at least the Kiyomuzi-dera (a Buddhist temple) was undergoing restoration construction while I was there in 2017 in preparation for 2020.
- 3np 5y agoThey aren’t really preparing for a tourist boom considering that non-resident fans and spectators will not be allowed entry.
- LeoPanthera 5y agoThey've already banned foreign spectators, there will be no tourism boom.
- Danieru 5y agoIn the next 10 years there will be, and 10 year time frames are short when it comes to LDP's planning. The tourism boom from 2014 to 2020 was an LDP plan. The Olympics were supposed to be just middle step in expanding that tourism. COVID is but a blip on the roadmap, hence all the subsidies meant to keep the hotels alive. Don't get me wrong, my post isn't a love letter to the LDP. But you do need to keep the Japan context in mind: the LDP have been in power for over 60 years. The METI, who drive economic polocy, have been a continuous singular bureaucracy since before WW1. Setting long term development goals and continuing in those plans come hell or high water is the one thing Japan does really well. Just look at the Fuel Cell investments.
- yongjik 5y agoUmm maybe, but that's orthogonal to whether the Tokyo Olympic Games happen or not. Tourists would visit Japan for an actual Olympic games (if they could), but have you ever heard of anyone visiting a place because it hosted the Olympics in the past?
- bijant 5y agoThat is a Thing. The Olympics put Barcelona on the map for many Tourists. Although the Consensus seems to be, that it worked better in the past and best for formerly obscure cities not for a whole country.
- URSpider94 5y agoIt’s equally a thing that countries get zero long-term tourism boost because of the Olympics and end up with a huge economic hangover and giant venues that have no practical use.
- Clewza313 5y agoTokyo is already pretty well on the map. Conversely, Nagano hosted the 1998 Winter Olympics, but it really isn't. Sapporo is somewhere between the two: pre-COVID, it was really taking off as arguably Asia's premier ski destination, but it's hard to credit the 1972 Winter Olympics almost 50 years ago for too much of this.
- zwayhowder 5y agoWhat if we put all this effort into improving our infrastructure, transport and heritage and don't host the olympics...
- chrysoprace 5y agoThis is my view when it comes to the Olympic Games in general.
- raverbashing 5y agoAh yes but we "can't have that" without a good reason, and without a fixed deadline right?
- seriousquestion 5y agoWhy do you oppose the Olympics in general?