Tokyo 2020 clues: when Japan's PM dressed up as Mario

With athletes and viewers exhausted, the closing ceremony for Rio2016 was passing off as expected... Until Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe popped out of a giant green pipe dressed up as video game character Mario from the Super Mario games, one of Japan's best-known exports. It was then the world got a clue that, for Tokyo2020, the next Olympic hosts would take full and shameless advantage of Ja

[hisatsugu79]

確かにジブリのキャラがいなかったのは少し意外というか。宮﨑駿ってこういうイベントに対してどう思ってるのかな。

[osito]

"full and shameless advantage of Japan's pop culture icons"だけは引っかかるが……

[mekurayanagi]

“It was then the world got a clue that, for Tokyo2020, the next Olympic hosts would take full and shameless advantage of Japan's pop culture icons.”　このshamelessってどう捉えるべきなんだろうね

[crema]

百合子さんのお着物が雨で台無しとか、東京オリンピックではポケゴを競技に入れてほしいとか、色々面白い記事w

[imakita_corp]

小池さんは着物が濡れて気の毒だったなｗ惜しむらくは安倍総理のマリオコスチュームが落ちるタイミングがもう少し伸びていれば