It's so unfortunate! The 2020 Olympics was supposed to be the start of the new Reiwa Era, rebirth after the devastation of the 2011 quake, like the 1964 Olympic

It's so unfortunate! The 2020 Olympics was supposed to be the start of the new Reiwa Era, rebirth after the devastation of the 2011 quake, like the 1964 Olympics and 1970 expo were a sign of rebirth after the end of the war. Already during our visits to Japan in 2017 and 2019 we could see a lot of infrastructure work going on all around, lots of optimistic Olympic advertising and countdowns. It really should have been an even presenting modern Japan to the whole world, with the expectation that many of the countless tourists who would go for the Olympics would like Japan and return. But with covid this is all gone, a lot of expensive infrastructure that will take many years to pay back without all the tourists and possibly bad image of Japan on the international stage & dissatisfaction with the government and foreign organizations in the Japanese population. Oh well, at least Akira did not happen. ;-)