Friday, 11 January 2013
Tokyo Governor Naoki Inose, Japan’s answer to Boris Johnson, was in London yesterday launching Tokyo-s bid for the 2020 Olympics—in the Ladies’ Smoking Room of the St Pancras Hotel of all places.
Some say that as Tokyo hosted the Games in 1964, when former Lib-Dem leader Ming Campbell sprinted for Britain, it-s a bit soon to do it again. Meanwhile merchant banker Nicolas Maclean announced Japan400, a year of celebrations to mark four centuries of trade with Britain. King James I gave the Shogun a telescope in 1613, the first one seen outside Europe.
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