Revision without Plan B

To avoid further downfall in popularity, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe changed his opinion. He announced that the plan for new national stadium would be revised from zero basis, because current plan that would cost ¥252 billion was too expensive. There is no fixed plan B so far. With sudden change of course, construction of new stadium will not catch up with World Cup Rugby in 2019. Is it possible for this nation to have Olympic Games in 2020, anyway?

Abe and Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee has been upholding current plan designed by Zaha Hadid, in which two big arch support whole structure of the stadium. Abe promised to build a brand-new stadium that would not exist anywhere else in the world. As a result that nobody considered how much the brand-new stadium would cost, it appeared to be as four times expensive as the main stadium in London Olympic.

It was inevitable that such crazy plan would face harsh criticism from the public. There has been an opinion that the government should be focusing on reconstruction from Great East Japan Earthquake, rather than making Tokyo Olympic a showcase of the reconstruction. Despite introducing new consumption tax rate, national budget still has huge deficit amounting to ¥1 quadrillion. People have no tolerance for irrelevant money spending.

Overturning former statement that he would not think a change in current construction plan, Abe told reporters that he had been thinking the change from one month before. “There have been criticisms from the people or athletes on the swollen cost. I decided that it would be difficult for everyone to cerebrate the Olympic in this situation,” told Abe. And he promised that new stadium would be finished before Tokyo Olympic 2020.

There was no responsible person for coordinating modern Olympic, which required compact and less expensive plan, after Tokyo was successful in the invitation. Abe was focusing on his personal political agenda such as collective self-defense or the seventieth anniversary statement. Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and Japan Sports Center have been pressing responsibility each other.

It might be too early for Japan to have Olympic Games. This country has not been rebuilt from chaos of the great earthquake. True damage of the disaster was incredibility of the people against national government, which had been too lazy to help people. Now, over one hundred thousands of people cannot get back home. In spite of that, the national government decided to cut the budget for helping those people starting next year. It is only Tokyo that is delighted with the coming sports event.