Chihiro Kai

Chihiro Kai is a Japanese American bilingual journalist with a background in evolutionary biology. She has written for Tempura, Japan Subculture Research Center and other publications.

BAD OMENS

Tokyo Admits Covered-Up COVID Case Was Olympic Visitor

The woman from Peru, who is Japan’s first known case of the Lambda variant, came to Japan with Olympic accreditation.

Jake Adelstein

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OLYMPICS FIRST

Tokyo Purposely Left Deadly Variant Out of Press Briefings

Even after a Lambda case was conclusively identified at the airport, the government omitted the findings from two press releases, reluctant to raise alarms during the Olympics.

Jake Adelstein

SHHHH...

Tokyo Covered Up Deadly New COVID Variant for the Olympics

The Daily Beast has discovered that Japan reported a case of the highly infectious Lambda variant in Tokyo three days before the Olympics began. Then it kept it quiet.

Jake Adelstein

‘HUSH MONEY’

Olympics Insider Calls Bullsh*t on Firing of Black Performer

The employee told The Daily Beast that Tokyo organizers, who claim the musician was cut for budget reasons, were “miffed” about having an African performer in the ceremony.

Chihiro Kai

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FUNERAL MARCH

A Notorious Japanese Composer’s Music Just Opened the Games

In yet another tone-deaf move, organizers used a song by a virulently homophobic and ultranationalist figure to open the Olympics—despite many warnings it might go over very badly.

Jake Adelstein

Chihiro Kai

Tokyo Admits Covered-Up COVID Case Was Olympic Visitor

Tokyo Purposely Left Deadly Variant Out of Press Briefings

Tokyo Covered Up Deadly New COVID Variant for the Olympics

Olympics Insider Calls Bullsh*t on Firing of Black Performer

A Notorious Japanese Composer’s Music Just Opened the Games

Japan’s Royalty Ditches Opening Ceremony in Epic Snub

Tokyo Is Insanely Deploying an Army of Half-Vaxxed Staffers

Japan Goes to War With Olympic Chief Over Hiroshima

Who the Hell Keeps Unplugging the Vaccine Fridges?