As Games face coronavirus risk, Tokyo flags chief hoists standard for perfection by juminism Ami Miyazaki
TOKYO - At 79, Tadamasa Fukiura has never lost his boyhood love of flags. But now the man in charge of supplying more than 10,000 of them for Tokyo’s 2020 Olympics has a flag obsession of a different stripe - whether the Games will go ahead.
For Fukiura, whose lifelong fascination saw him asked to supervise displays at Tokyo’s 1964 Games, a call needs to be made, and soon, on whether to proceed with meticulous preparations for over 10,000 flags representing nations around the world at this year’s event. Currently an advisor for the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Fukiura describes his passion as an “addiction” and literally wrote the book on flags of the world when he was a 22-year-old college student at Waseda University supervising displays at the 1964 Olympics.
“It was really exciting. Nineteen years after losing the war, Japanese people concentrated on the Olympics,” he said.
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