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A drone that had been filming a light-up display at Nagoya City Hall for the Asian Games and Asian Para Games collided with a nearby government building on September 17, it was learned on the 19th from sources involved in the investigation. The filming was being carried out by an organization whose secretariat is run jointly by Aichi Prefecture and the city of Nagoya, but the required flight permit had not been filed with the national government beforehand, and Aichi Prefectural Police are investigating on suspicion of violating the Civil Aeronautics Act. On 5ch, more than the collision itself, many took it as just the latest in a string of mishaps plaguing the Games’ management, and distrust in the organizing body spread.
A drone filming Nagoya City Hall, lit up for the Asian Games and Asian Para Games, collided with a nearby government building on the 17th, it was learned on the 19th
from sources involved in the investigation.
The filming was carried out by an organization whose secretariat is run by Aichi Prefecture and the city. According to investigators, the required advance filing had not been submitted to the national government, and prefectural police are investigating on suspicion of violating the Civil Aeronautics Act.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
This Games doesn't have Dentsu or Hakuhodo involved,
so of course the management is a total mess lol (Japan's two biggest ad agencies, usually the ones running big events)
Apparently it's a French company running things —
the kind that can't even tell North Korea and South Korea apart
(´・ω・`)
Everyone involved ought to be thrown in prison over this
This operation is beyond bad
European companies can be pretty sloppy too, honestly…
Another Asian Games hockey blunder
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/47a58d551378388ebbcedb650bdbbc6816d471ab
This is just how Nagoya does everything — one screwup and you've seen them all.
Business as usual
the whole place is basically just a "big countryside town" at heart,
so I figure fine-grained event management was never gonna happen
The Games management is way too sloppy —
issues keep popping up all over the place, what's going on here?
The mayor seriously needs to come out and hold a press conference to explain this
There's shoddy, and then there's this
Actually, just stop hosting these multi-week Games in Japan at all, it's a waste of money
Aichi isn't even in Kansai
The only "Kansai" thing about it is that some commuters from Mie Prefecture have a Kansai-ish accent
I had no idea it was this much of a sieve
Don't you dare bring up wanting an Aichi Olympics after this
Well, the bid for that already failed anyway
Enough already
The food actually got good reviews there — compare that to what Nagoya's serving up
They spent all that money prepping the Tokyo Olympic marathon course,
then moved the marathon — the Olympics' headline event — to Hokkaido anyway
Match times got shuffled around, broadcast schedules got shuffled around
And the COVID chaos on top of it all
Complaints about the Athletes' Village: "Doesn't feel like the 21st century" — scaled back due to the postponement
Foreign athletes who moved into the Tokyo Olympics' athletes' village (Harumi, Tokyo) complained about cramped rooms and facilities.
Russian media raised it at an organizing committee press conference, saying it "doesn't feel like 21st-century Japan."
"There's no fridge or TV in the village rooms. Five people share a room with only one bathroom. Doesn't feel like the 21st century. It's like medieval Japan."
At the organizing committee's press conference on the 20th, Russian media relayed these complaints from Russian athletes to committee chair Seiko Hashimoto and others.
https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASP7P6KVTP7PUTQP00W.html
Guess everyone will have forgotten about it in another five years
Hey, at least you get to see real kabaddi
The Osaka Expo was held last year, but the competitive bidding for the Asian Games was the year before that.
So the contract was likely already locked in before the unpaid Expo bills came to light
Background and Key Points of This Story
Under the Civil Aeronautics Act, flying a drone over densely populated areas or near important national facilities requires prior permission and approval from the national government (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism). The core issue here is that this step was skipped entirely — the focus isn’t on the scale of the collision or any damage caused, but on this basic procedural failure, a missing filing, on the organizers’ part. Many thread comments criticized the company behind the filming or tied it to other mishaps during the Games (such as the wrong national anthem being played), but it’s worth noting those are separate incidents from this drone collision and aren’t directly related to what’s covered in this article. Some commenters also framed this as a “Nagoya-specific” problem, but the article itself gives no basis for that conclusion — operational shortcomings at major international sporting events have also been pointed out at the Tokyo Olympics and other past domestic Games.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[Asian Games Aichi 2026] Filming drone collides with Nagoya City Hall building — possible Civil Aeronautics Act violation tied to the Asian Games.”
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