Kohei Jinno, 87, who was forced to leave his house two times ahead of the 1964 and 2020 Olympics Games to make way for construction of the main stadium, speaks in front of the Olympic Rings monument outside the Japan Olympic Museum near the National Stadium, the main stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games that have been postponed to 2021 due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Tokyo, Japan June 24, 2021. Picture taken June 24, 2021. REUTERS/Issei Kato
TOKYO (Reuters) - When Kohei Jinno was evicted from his family home to clear the way for the construction of the National Stadium for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, he was sad but proud to contribute to Japan in a moment of national triumph.
But when he was evicted again in 2013, at age 80, so the government could rebuild the stadium for the 2020 Games, it felt like a bitter twist of fate made worse by what he saw as official indifference.
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