Tokyo 2020 set up a booth to reflect the recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake

Yasuyuki Kobayashi, an official with the Japan Reconstruction Agency, insisted that the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games would continue to play a role in helping Japan recover from the effects of the tsunami, earthquake and nuclear meltdown in Fukushima in March 2011.

“We believe that the idea of ​​the Olympic and Paralympic Games ‘reconstruction’ is a very important message that must be sent at this time,” Kobayashi said as Tokyo 2020 launched a special pavilion for the Recovery and Reconstruction Games at the main press center to provide more information.

“During the games, we use products from the affected areas.

The eaves of the gates at the entrance to the stadium are constructed of provincial timber.

“In the athletes’ village, we serve food from the affected areas and even victory bouquets use flowers from the areas.”

Of the 470,000 evacuees from the affected areas at the height of the disaster, only 40,000 were able to return, Kobayashi said.

The number of people living in emergency housing has fallen from 316,000 in 2012 to about 1,000 in the most recent review.

More than 20,000 people were killed in the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami in 2011 © Getty Images

Tokyo 2020 invited community leaders from the hardest-hit areas to tell their stories online at the kiosk.

Akiko Iwasaki of Hurikan in Iwate said the sport has played a major role in the region’s regeneration and culminated in a successful campaign to bring the 2019 Rugby World Cup to Kamaishi Recovery Memorial Stadium in the prefecture.

“Kamaichi is a city of rugby and so we wanted to hold the Rugby World Cup and create hope through sport, the dream came true in 2019,” Iwasaki said.

Uruguay beat Fiji in the group match that was held at the stadium.

The community also hosted the National Triathlon in 2016 after working together to clean up the beach.

British teacher Richard Halberstadt has lived in Ishinomaki, the Miyagi city closest to the epicenter, for 30 years.

Halberstadt is now director of the community and information center there.

“It contains a lot of sad data regarding the earthquake, with 4,000 people losing their lives here in Ishinomaki, the most of any city in the disaster,” Halberstadt said.

Uruguay beat Fiji in a Rugby World Cup match at the Kamaishi Recovery Memorial Stadium in 2019 © Getty Images

The waters of the tsunami at its height reached 21 meters in the city areas.

In March, a memorial park opened that locals hope will soak up the water in any future tidal wave.

Miyagi Prefecture will host soccer at the Games starting with the Women’s Group F match between China and Brazil on Wednesday (July 21).

Yoshiko Aoki, representative of Tomioka in Fukushima, spoke of her pride that the local high school graduates are set to participate in Tokyo 2020 in soccer and badminton.

“We had young people who didn’t give up and believed in tomorrow and also believed in their dream and made it come true,” Aoki said.

“We can see courage and hope in these young people and are able to believe in the future.”

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