The 2020 Olympics in Tokyo should be a cause for celebration but this may depend on who you talk to.
Takajima Publishing released a book by Yoshinari Ichinomiya in June 2014 titled "2020 Black Money and the Tokyo Olympics" that portrays the event as an underworld party.
In a chapter titled “The Yakuza Olympics,” Ichinomiya discusses the alleged ties that Hidetoshi Tanaka, vice president of the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC), has had to organized crime in the past. It references a September 1998 photograph of Tanaka with the former head of the Sumiyoshi-kai, the second-largest yakuza group in the country, at Hotel New Otani Tokyo. The Shukan Bunshun was the first to publish the photo in February 2014.
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