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Tokyo Is Boiling. Will It Be Too Hot for the 2020 Summer Olympics?

DEATHRACE 2020

The heat wave devastating Japan shows how disastrous the weather is likely to be in 2020. The IOC and the Abe government—and the yakuza—played a part in this hellish timing.

Jake Adelstein
Jake Adelstein
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Jake Adelstein

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