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The story
It’s come to light that at the Asian Games and Asian Para Games being held in Aichi and Nagoya from September to October 2026, athletes’ village lodgings have repeatedly assigned men and women to the same rooms. Japan team deputy chief Hisashi Mizutori explained that “situations arose where men and women were assigned to the same room, or coaches and athletes had to share a room,” with the mishandling especially pronounced in the lodging area using cruise ships. Given the roughly 370 billion yen poured into the Games, questions swirled on 5ch over how this could happen, with criticism of the organizing committee mixing with the kind of condom-distribution jokes that have become an Olympics tradition.
Whatever happened to that “omotenashi” (hospitality) spirit that won Japan the Olympics bid?… A string of bizarre incidents, including mixed-gender rooms
Source: news.livedoor.com / Original article here
What people said
Isn't this the same company that stiffed people on Expo payments? Why are they even being outsourced to for this?
The Great World Equality Punch
Guess we can win with this then
Just like the Olympics, shouldn't they have custom-branded condoms too?
Expo: huge success
Asian Games: trash
Guess it really is Osaka or nothing
(TEAM JAPAN Deputy Chief Hisashi Mizutori)
"I've been told that check-in procedures for lodging took a long time or didn't go smoothly, leaving some athletes waiting for several hours."
Among the Japanese athletes set to stay on the cruise ships, some ended up assigned to the same room as their coach, while others were placed in mixed-gender rooms.
The delegation is scrambling to reshuffle room assignments, and some sports federations are rushing to arrange hotel accommodations instead.
https://topics.smt.docomo.ne.jp/amp/article/hicbc/nation/hicbc-2953341
https://www.kobe-np.co.jp/news/zenkoku/compact/202609/0020829346.shtml
Kobe Shimbun's got this one too
"As one" (wink wink)
Starving out the enemy — that's the samurai way
Wonder where all that 370 billion yen actually went…
– The Extroverts' Coalition
– Currently mid-Adrenaline-Pumping Games
Knowing how cheap those probably are, we might get a wave of surprise babies out of this
Somebody messes something up literally every single day at this point
Honestly, that one's fine
That's basically just a declaration of war, so it's fine
As an apology, let's play the Stars and Stripes during Japan's turn next time
Meanwhile the Osaka Expo and Tokyo Olympics didn't have nearly this much operational trouble
Nothing but trouble, as per usual
Wild that there's no "Olympic baby" yet
Though maybe it's just not making headlines
That's exactly what all those condoms being handed out are for
Background and Key Points
The trouble centered specifically on the group housed on cruise ships within the athletes’ village; similar issues haven’t been notable in the container-style lodging area. According to Deputy Chief Mizutori, even though the room assignments were correct on paper, mix-ups of men and women, or coaches and athletes, occurred at actual check-in — suggesting the root cause was operational failures on the ground rather than a flaw in the plan itself. This has been weighed against the roughly 370 billion yen total project cost, and on 5ch, doubts about cost-effectiveness spread alongside the usual jokes about the Olympic-style tradition of condom distribution. Note that the claim “Japan’s own lodgings also have mixed-gender rooms” comes only from a post within the thread and hasn’t been officially confirmed.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “Asian Games athletes’ village erupts over shocking mixed-gender rooms lol.”
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