Tokyo Governor Inose finally resigned.

Tokyo Governor Naoki Inose FINALLY resigned, FINALLY. It's too late.

As I wrote before, his corruption scandal was revealed.
(http://mytokyoolympics.blogspot.jp/2013/12/tokyo-governer-acts-as-drag-again.html)

After that, many other bad things about him came out in the open and he was keeping saying excuses that made no sense at all.

It took a long time before he resigned because although everyone has thought that he should have resigned as soon as possible, Inose himself tried hard to hang on to the governor position. So finally, the vice-president of the LDP Takamura made the comment that recommended him to resign, and even Prime Minister Abe took action.

Then, he finally announced his resignation yesterday.


It was very good for Tokyo, and for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

The governor election is going to be conducted in February. I wonder who is elected.
I hope the next governor is a capable and genuine person.

Olympic Agenda 2020

It seems that new IOC president Thomas Bach is quite active and innovative.

He is trying to carry out major reforms, which was named "Olympic Agenda 2020."

The following is the summary.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ioc-president-bach-pushes-olympic-190417095--oly.html


It is becoming a real possibility that baseball and softball could be brought into the 2020 Tokyo Games.

The Final Draw for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil

Needless to say, the World Cup is different from the Olympics. But because it's one of the biggest and most popular international sports events, and soccer is one of the Olympics events, I'm going to deal with the World Cup-related things here in this blog.

The final draw took place and the result is as follows;

This time, there are many groups called "Death of Group."

Group A, Group B, Group D and Group G. Too many!!

England I always cheer for is in the Death of Group... Hope England advances to the  final stage.




The 2014 World Cup will be held from June 12th to July 13th.

2013 JOC/NF Forum

The IOC held the forum for kind of people in charge of Japan's sports internationally on December 4th.
It seems that this forum takes place every year.

*JOC: the Japan Olympic Committe
*NF: National Federations



According to the article, the brief summary this year was as follows.

<Participants>
112 people involved in JOC and NF

<Agenda>
-  JOC President Takeda explain about the form of organization of TOCOG.
*TOCOG: Tokyo Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games

- He asked for the cooperation of NFs in;
    Developing the basic plan for the Olympics
    Accumulating necessary experience for organizing the Olympics
    Strengthening athletes toward the goals that are
        "rank 3rd in number of gold medals" and "rank 5th in number of all medals."

- Speech about "bullying and violence in sports" by an expert from abroad

- etc.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

It seems to be just formal event and not so interesting. I think the JOC members like such a meaningless but expensive events though.

But I'm a curious about the form of organization of TOCOG.
I wonder if what kind of the organization will be formed.

Tricolor

It's been over a month since I started learning French. It's much more difficult than English. Whew...

I just thought of putting a French flag seal on my French learning notebook. I found the area in a shop where seals of many countries are sold. I looked for French flag, tricolor, tricolor, tricolor...
I found it! and bought it.

This is the flag seal I bought.

When I was trying putting it, I wondered which was the upper side, red or blue?
I looked up the French flag on the Internet.

What!?!?!?
French flag is vertical tricolor, not horizontal!! Ooops!

Silly me!

So, what flag is this?
I looked up on the Internet again.

Oh, it's Netherlands flag. Yes, I know it. It's exactly Netherlands. I wonder why I didn't notice.

Silly me again!

Then, I bought the right French flag seal and put it on my notebook.
Ta-da!

Tokyo governer acts as a drag AGAIN!

Tokyo governor Naoki Inose did something stupid again. It's the third times...

First;
Before the Tokyo was decided to be the host of the 2020 Olympics, Inose criticized, or rather insulted another bidding city Istanbul.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/sports/in-praising-its-olympic-bid-tokyo-tweaks-the-others.html

At that time, I was really disgusted. What a stupid thing he did! Shame on you!!

Second;
As I wrote the previous article, when the the host selection session took place, although Tokyo Olympic Bidding Committee member did very well, Inose was a kind of deadweight. His presentation was immature, and when he answered to a question, he looked as if he was angry with the questioner. Immature and childish!!

What a dull person he is!!

Third;
Finally, it was revealed that he did a incredibly terrible thing. It's a funding issue when he ran for Tokyo gubernatorial election.

http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0000820298

His story (or more like excuses) are full of inconsistencies. His explanation ways are alwways awkward.

All people are skeptical about him.

You should resign as governor ASAP!!

Awkward Inose