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Tokyo’s homeless seek shelter in Olympic Village
The Hindu | 19/04/2020 02:25 PM | Click to read full article
An online petition addressed to Tokyo Olympic organisers and the city government has drawn tens of thousands of signatures for permission to occupy the massive housing complex going up alongside Tokyo Bay.The village was to be home to 11,000 Olympic athletes and 4,400 Paralympic athletes.Tokyo Olympics organisers declined comment, and the Tokyo metropolitan government also had no immediate comment on the petition.
