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Why Tokyo s elite are staging a backlash against the Olympics The pandemic has thrown plans into disarray, but the city s movers and shakers are reluctant to celebrate the games 24 July 2021 • 5:00am The opening ceremony finally got underway this week, after a year of delays and re-arranging Shigeru Kaneko pauses from tidying the coffee shop he has run for 45 years and recalls a favourite childhood memory: the moment he watched the jubilant opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics in 1964. “I was just a schoolboy at the time,” smiles Kaneko, 70, a neatly-pressed Tokyo 2020 t-shirt peeking out behind his blue apron, as he looks out onto a narrow street in the eastern Asakusa district. “It was amazing. I remember the excitement as I realised how big and diverse the world was. Many people rushed out to buy a television just to watch it.”

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