“Osaka is phlegm. All they think about is making money. There’s no public spirit.”
So said Yoshiro Mori, former prime minister and now former president of the Tokyo Organising Committee, in April 1988.
At the time, he was an up-and-coming leader in the Liberal Democratic Party speaking to supporters in Osaka’s neighboring Kyoto.
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