For the 67-year-old former fencing world champion, this trip to Japan is by no means easy.
/KLOC-On the afternoon of 0/3, Bach visited BOCOG and held talks with BOCOG President Hashimoto Tōru. This is Bach's first offline public activity when he went to Japan to participate in the preparation and hosting of the Olympic Games, and the episode happened at this time.
Bach said when meeting with Seiko Hashimoto that the International Olympic Committee has always been committed to holding a safe and reliable meeting for the public. Bach said "Japanese people" as "China people" when he was going to emphasize "the public" here, referring to athletes, delegations and the Japanese people. Bach soon realized this slip of the tongue and immediately corrected it as "Japanese people".
Although Bach praised Japan's efforts for the Olympic Games throughout the talks and said that "nothing is more comprehensive than the preparations for the Tokyo Olympic Games", he finally said "Let's work together" in Japanese. However, Japanese netizens only remembered Bach's above-mentioned slip of the tongue, and the news quickly boarded the Japanese online hot search list.
Japanese netizens angrily accused: "China and Japan are unclear. Is this your understanding of Japan? " "You really don't care about the Japanese people." "What are you doing in Japan?" .
Of course, most Japanese people are not stingy enough to catch Bach's slip of the tongue. In fact, many Japanese people have "accumulated grievances" against Bach.
In the final analysis, many Japanese people are opposed to hosting the Olympic Games under the epidemic situation. They believe that hosting the Olympic Games will worsen the epidemic situation in Japan and endanger people's health and lives. However, the Japanese government and the International Olympic Committee insisted on holding it, which caused a rift between the Japanese government, the International Olympic Committee and the Japanese people. Many Japanese believe that "the IOC insists on hosting the Olympic Games only for economic benefits".
Bach, who represents the International Olympic Committee, is bound to become the "attack" object of some Japanese. Bach's remarks at the beginning of this year, in particular, have angered many Japanese.
At the beginning of this year, the COVID-19 epidemic spread around the world, and there was a strong argument in the international community that the Tokyo Olympic Games could not be held as scheduled. 1On October 27th, Bach denied that the Tokyo Olympic Games would be suspended or postponed again. He also said that it is still too early to decide on specific epidemic prevention measures. I hope that all relevant personnel, such as the Japanese people and athletes from all over the world, "please wait patiently anyway."
Bach's speech was simply interpreted by Japanese public opinion as, "The Olympic Games will be held anyway, and the Japanese people should be patient." . The rift between Bach and the Japanese people who oppose hosting the Olympic Games is getting deeper and deeper.
From the first day when Bach arrived in Japan, he probably felt the unfriendliness of Japanese public opinion.
On July 8, Bach arrived at Haneda Airport in Tokyo by plane, and was later released by a police car to live in a hotel in Tokyo. When he arrived at the hotel, Bach waved and smiled at the media outside the window, but the Japanese media said, "This scene deepened the Japanese people's resentment against him."
Not only did someone post on the Internet asking Bach to leave Japan, but on July 10, some people gathered in front of Bach's hotel to protest, shouting "Bach goes home" and "Stop hosting the Olympic Games".
In addition, Bach originally planned to go to Hiroshima, which was bombed by the American atomic bomb, on July 16 during the "Olympic Truce" to participate in activities aimed at promoting world peace. However, in June 5438+02, a group composed of local people submitted a protest to the local government of Hiroshima, opposing Bach's visit to Hiroshima, saying that Bach was "trying to justify hosting the Olympic Games under the guise of peace".
I wonder what kind of unfriendly treatment Bach will encounter during the next Tokyo Olympic Games. (Original title: Saying "Japanese" as "China" and the President of the International Olympic Committee "annoyed" Japanese netizens)