Comments by "redfish337" (@redfish337) on "Business Insider" channel.

  1. They could have kept the stadium if they were trying to keep to a strict budget. They just took the opportunity to replace it. Which is fine... all central Tokyo venues have no problem being well-used considering Japanese love for sports and music. Perhaps more importantly... they "kicked" the Americans out of the western Yamanote region to use as the Olympic Village. And then built Yoyogi Park on top of it after the games finished. So they have to make a new Olympics Village over near the harbor district. So what would have happened if they had maintained the space? It's the large green space between Harajuku and Shibuya... It's hard to say if things (in a pop culture sense) would have developed the way it has without that park being there preventing heavy development on top of Harajuku. The point is...Japan traded military housing for a park- trying to maintain some of the less important infrastructure would have been a detriment moving forward.
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  2. 1.8 million dollars. Why do people assume it's wrong? It's +200,000,000 yen.
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  3. It says dollars, presumably USD.
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  4. Stop bidding. The IOC is taking too much money. Stop bidding so it is forced to negotiate.
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  5. No, it's 1.8 million USD... it was something like 2.3億円, and an 億 is 100,000,000.
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  6. While there are likely a few exceptions, Japanese people don't eat dogs. A relatively small amount is imported, with much of that going to Korea and China towns.
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  7. ​ @yuhhhitsbraydenyuhhh6429  I don't care about your joke- go make it on a Korean channel. You make the whale joke here. Making the dog joke here is wrong.
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  8. As far as I can tell, it was indeed 1.8 million USD. It is listed as 2 oku yen. Oku is 100,000,000.
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  9. 1.8 million dollars.
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  10. No, dollars.
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  11. It's because it's auctioned which has all sorts of other dynamics involved.
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