Hiroshima to bid for 2020 summer Olympics?

Discussion in 'Postwar' started by Peter Clare, Oct 11, 2009.

  1. Peter Clare

    Peter Clare Very Senior Member

    Hiroshima 2020?: City Reportedly Considering Bid For Summer Olympics

    The Japanese city of Hiroshima is considering a bid for the 2020 Summer Olympic games, according to Kyodo News and Japan Today.

    Up to 140,000 people were killed in 1945 when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. A nuclear bomb was also dropped on the city of Nagasaki.
    Japan Today reports that if Hiroshima does bid for the Olympic games, the move would likely carry a message of peace and nuclear disarmament.
    In an international peace meeting in Mexico City last month, Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba said that eliminating all nuclear weapons by 2020 is feasible and expressed hope that the Olympics will be staged in Hiroshima and Nagasaki that year to celebrate a nuclear-free world.
    Kyodo News reports that the International Olympic Committee will select a host city for the 2020 Olympics in 2013.


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  2. A-58

    A-58 Not so senior Member

    If they get the games awarded to them, I'm sure that the Japanese will put on their best victim face, and the US team will be boo'ed during the opening cermonies as they walk in the stadium.

    Japan prospered quite well under the US military presence and our nuclear umbrella protection, and did little to contribute to their defense. Their little self-defence force did little to deter the Chicoms and the Rooskies from the threat of invasion. They conveniently forget those facts.

    The games ought to be awarded to Nanking.
     

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