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One Japanese Man on Being Evicted for the Olympics Twice in One Lifetime: 'I Have a Kind of Grudge'
Tokyo's National Olympic Stadium is being rebuilt and expanded. That means Kohei Jinno, who lives one block away, will have to move. Again.
Kohei Jinno lost his home and business to the wrecking ball half a century ago, demolished to make way for the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Now, he'll be moving again for the exact same reason.
After spending 1964 and '65 in another town cleaning cars, Jinno has run a tobacco shop inside the apartment complex he was relocated to in 1966. Now 79 years-old, he'll be forced to move again, this time, to make way for the brand new, $1.3 billion Olympic Stadium. According to The Japan Times, some 200 households at Kasumigaoka, where a third of the residents are over 70, will be relocated as a result of the stadium.