‘Sad, lonely feeling’: Tokyo man evicted twice, 50 years apart, for Olympic construction By Reuters
By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - When Kohei Jinno was evicted from his family home to clear the way for the construction of the National Stadium for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, he was sad but proud to contribute to Japan in a moment of national triumph. But when he was evicted again in 2013, at age 80, so the government could rebuild the stadium for the 2020 Games, it felt like a bitter twist of fate made worse by what he saw as official indifference. It also forced him and his wife, Yasuko, out of...
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