五輪 巨費を投じる価値があったのか、疑わしい、と・・国民

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Japan is wondering if the Olympics are really worth it https://t.co/eHfh2aQwsl

— Financial Times (@FT) 2019年12月23日

At the request of the Board of Audit, the government categorised everything into three groups: directly related spending, hard-to-judge-how-related-it-is spending and weakly-related spending. The government then said it would only publicly disclose as Olympic spending the items in the first group, which, unsurprisingly, produced more or less the same figure it had given before.

But the toothpaste is out of the tube and the government knows it. The accountants have shown that not just Tokyo, but the whole country, is paying a stunning sum to host these games and that this figure threatens to turn noxiously political once the torch moves on.