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Regarding the string of operational mishaps at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, the organizing committee held a press briefing in Nagoya on September 22. Deputy Secretary-General Takaaki Osan said the issues were “mostly human error,” and pledged thorough countermeasures for each cause along with an apology. On the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread, reactions focused on who’s actually responsible, questions about why Aichi Governor Hideaki Omura, the committee’s chairman, hasn’t publicly explained anything himself, and the fact that some operational staff are being staffed through spot-work gig apps.
Tue 9/22, 5:51 PM
The organizing committee for the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, which has been plagued by operational trouble, held a press briefing in Nagoya on the 22nd to address the string of issues.
Deputy Secretary-General Takaaki Osan apologized, saying: “Most of it comes down to human error. We’ll work out countermeasures tailored to each cause and see them through thoroughly. We apologize for the lack of flexibility in our response, and want to move forward with putting the competition first.”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
《Example of "human error"》
Announcements just hand-written on a whiteboard
Nah, I'd say it's more like mixing up maggots and tapeworms.
No, no
It's as annoying as mixing up burnable and non-burnable trash.
Even the Paris Olympics website
mixed up the South Korean flag with the North Korean one.
And in that thread they're going on about how it's not their fault
What's going on here?
Their "hō-ren-sō" (report/contact/consult — basic workplace communication) must be totally broken
Everyone's just doing their own thing all over the place.
[Asian Games] Organizers apologize over string of issues, say it's "mostly human error" — press response on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games
https://hayabusa9.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/mnewsplus/1790067359/
??
You're the one with the "??"
Why are you posting this thread's own URL in this thread?
Pretty sure it's almost all volunteers.
Toyota's busy working through Silver Week (Japan's late-September holiday cluster).
https://hayabusa9.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/mnewsplus/1790052030/
For the new-event stuff
it actually seems unrelated to them
Looks like that's how it's been settled.
Seriously though, who's actually going to take responsibility for this?
Maybe there just isn't anyone in charge.
They admitted the mistake, so cut them some slack.
The media's probably keeping quiet
because they're sponsors
and want to keep broadcasting the events going forward.
And the pay's dirt cheap on top of it
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https://x.com/ch45kkk43421/status/2101948444550316532?s=20
If there's no company actually running the show
then it's gotta fall on part-timers or volunteers
to get it done.
Everyone slammed this exact thing during the Tokyo Olympics though.
Well there was the postponement and COVID
so sponsors probably bailed back then.
He's the head of the organizing committee.
Yoshimura's a stand-up guy
Omura, on the other hand…
Maybe with how pushy the OCA (Olympic Council of Asia) has been,
he's just thrown in the towel?
it's not French staff running things on the ground
it's Japanese people doing it
so the responsibility lies with Japan.
Isn't head office overseeing things from the top?
Though maybe all they do is dodge responsibility?
the stipend was pathetic,
and they didn't get to do the work they wanted,
so a lot of them quit partway through.
Word is the ones still sticking around are mostly student volunteers
who just want to meet their idols on the Japan national team, or something like that.
That'd make sense for the Olympics,
but for the Asian Games…
people probably just don't feel that attached to it.
Normally the ad agency handles overall direction while an event company runs operations,
but this is way too sloppy for any decent Japanese event company.
What kind of third-rate outfit did they hire to run this thing?
A competent one wouldn't be blaming "mostly human error."
Aichi Prefecture is the one at fault here for going with a cheap, no-track-record company.
Honestly, this whole event
just doesn't have anyone strong in charge to begin with.
Background and Key Points of This Story
The Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games is an international event underway in 2026, and this press briefing came in response to criticism of the operational setup. The organizing committee’s “human error” explanation stems from a string of on-the-ground shortcomings, including announcements being hand-written on whiteboards and flags being mixed up. Flag mix-ups aren’t unheard of at major events — even the official Paris Olympics website made the same mistake — but what drew criticism this time was how many separate incidents piled up in such a short span. On the thread, the most prominent reactions questioned the use of gig-app spot-workers for some operational staff and the fact that the Aichi governor, who heads the organizing committee, hasn’t spoken publicly about it, while others pointed out an apparent inconsistency with a separate thread where organizers claimed “the cause isn’t on the host side.” Based on this briefing alone, it’s impossible to tell where simple human error ends and where a deeper structural problem begins.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[Asian Games] Organizers apologize over string of issues, say it’s “mostly human error” — press response on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.”
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