TOKYO: At any other time in Yoyogi Park, the sight of workers going about their business with power saws would pass unnoticed. It’s a densely treed spot and the glorious 57-year-old oaks and cedars won’t prune themselves.
The rising indignation at the Olympic tree-cutting offers a neat encapsulation of much that has gone wrong with the games at this point.That includes the tin-eared “barring Armageddon it’s a go” messaging from International Olympic Committee officials and the many unforced errors of local organisers, including the resignation in February of the president of the Tokyo Olympics, Yoshiro Mori, over sexist remarks.
FILE PHOTO: A pedestrian looks at pictures of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, inside the Tokyo train station building. Either crowds are allowed to come in numbers to enjoy the Live Zone and the closure of the park’s open areas was unnecessary in the first place, or they decide crowds are not allowed to come and the Live Zone is another colossal waste of money and a flawed reason to chop back trees.
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