Staff writerOSAKA -- Kazuhito Konishi is not likely to be on the list of people Osaka Mayor Takafumi Isomura hopes to meet during his trip to Nagano this weekend to promote Osaka's 2008 Olympics bid.
Konishi, a journalist-activist and acknowledged expert on the development of Osaka Bay, is chairman of the Osaka Needs No Olympics Citizens' Union, a group of about 30 Kansai-based activists who will be in Nagano today and Sunday to protest Osaka's bid.
Following the city's selection last August by the Japan Olympic Committee as Japan's candidate for the 2008 Games, Isomura was widely quoted in the local media as saying there is no local opposition to Osaka hosting the Olympics.
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