Let the Games … Be Gone? (Published 2021)

In the middle of the night nearly two years ago, construction crews gathered near Senso-ji, Tokyo’s oldest Buddhist temple and a popular tourist site. The streets were empty, the air was sultry and the workers hoped it would not rain. Machines rumbled to life. It was a little thing, barely noticed. But it was a sign of the sometimes futile and farcical lengths taken to put on the biggest show in s

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“For them, the Olympics raise, more than ever, issues ranging from compensation to free speech to gender rights.”