Anticipated Cultural And Political Impacts On The Upcoming Olympics 2020 In Tokyo

Research about anticipated cultural and political impacts for a selected future event

You are required to develop an essay that identifies, examines and discusses a key cultural  and/or political issue or impact that isanticipated in the conduct of a selected future event. The  essay should include recommendations for event organisers that are designed to offset negative.

Politics in its broadest implication is identified as an activity through which people make, preserve as well as shape the general rules under which people live. Politics is thus inextricably associated with the phenomenon of conflict and cooperation. Politics further is signified in varied ways related to the exercise of power, the science of government and further forming collective or mutual decisions (O'Neil & Fields, 2015). In current times, Japan has been focusing on nationally supported goals to augment its economic structure. Politics in Japan has been in a state of drift in recent years with there being seven varied governance of prime ministers in as many years. This, however, has resulted in the deprivation of the nation of the leadership and has been consequential to economic instability and further encounter challenges of the developing country (Turner, 2015). The breakdown of Japan’s political system can no longer be disregarded. Studies conducted by Liff, (2015) has revealed another essential focus of attention of the Japanese politics currently live on whether Shinzo Abe will be re-elected for the third term for Presidency of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) (O'Neil & Fields, 2015). However, Abe's chance to close the lower house for a sudden general election has been paid off. Furthermore, popular agreement ratings of Abe’s cabinet declined to a lower degree in early 2018 due to a series of scandals that impacted the government and LDP lawmakers. These decisive disreputable events according to Turner, (2015) have further re-bounded the levels which have been identified to be dominant enough for a thriving administration in the sixth year of the present Prime Minister of Japan. These criticalities of the political state of Japan have failed to distinguish any distinctive direction of the separated opposition and have reflected high propensity to pose threats to the upcoming Olympics in 2020 that would be hosted by Tokyo (O'Neil & Fields, 2015). The following essay will argue on the way specific cultural and political criticalities will impact the upcoming Olympics 2020 that will be hosted by Tokyo.

The current political scenario of Japan further indicates a significant change which instituted last year to the LDP regulations and facilitated the party's President to address a third-year term rather than focusing on the highest two terms previously (Liff, 2015). This, however, may be consequential and increase contenders to Abe during the party leadership election in September. Further to this, the disintegration of the former number one opposition democratic party. Liff, (2017) has noted that some of its lower house members operated on the ticket of Koike's new party others have created the new constitutional democratic party of Japan LDP and left the opposition at a highly fractured state. At this juncture, Horiuchi, Saito & Yamada, (2015) have noted that the previous election held in 2015 recorded achievement of Abe. Thus disregarding the major setback, it can be pointed out that the chances of Abe reacquiring supremacy for the third time as the LDP chief. This success, however, can be expected by focusing on his record of leading the party towards great achievements during his Diet election since 2012 (Turner, 2015). However with the solidified hold on power and authority, Abe administration has been encountering several challenges starting from leading a robust economy, domestic demand-centric growth to act receptive towards the amplified amount of threat posed by North Korea which made significant advancement over the past years due to its nuclear weapons as well as ballistic missile development programmes (Liff, 2015).

Meanwhile, Okamoto, (2017) is of the perspective that Abe has been emphasising for revising the constitution as his fundamental political purpose with the LDP strategizing to submit its draft of an amendment to the Diet Commission. This strategy, however, has been planned in order to attain the diet to initiate a change at the beginning of 2019. However even do with the ruling coalition along with other through amendment forces with two-thirds majorities in both the chambers needed to propose a revision for approval in the national referendum (Horiuchi, Saito & Yamada, 2015). In such a scenario, harmony is expected to emerge among the parties or within the domains of LDP based on these particulars of an amendment that incorporates division of article 9 (Burrett, 2016). In addition to this, current political implications O'Neil & Fields, (2015) further have shed light on the foreign policy front which Japan is experiencing. Burrett, (2016) has noted that at the foreign policy front which has been dealing with the challenges of North Korea has remained one of the crucial concerns for Tokyo. Abe while facing such impediments has persistently demanded to maximise pressure on Kim Jong-hyun’s regime in Pyongyang to compel it to discard its nuclear as well as missile programs (Okamoto, 2017). Furthermore vital integrations have developed which would signify any form of the strategy of following the regime of Kim in order to improve its policy.

On the other hand, Horiuchi, Saito & Yamada, (2015) have stated that in Japan forces in the opposition party has been encountering significant challenges of reinstating following the dismal general election results. Suboti?, (2016) has witnessed certain negative anticipation in Japan about the execution of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Sullivan & Leeds, (2016) noted as Tokyo had reached its extensively costly centrepiece which is $80 billion Stadium along with the official logo and allegations of high illegal use. Furthermore, the arrangements have been played by some ambiguous mental cost overruns with effective leadership and prevalent hesitation and discrepancy. These factors exhibit great reservation about the incompetent Japanese government. At this juncture, Horiuchi, Saito & Yamada, (2015) have witnessed a prominent contrast with contemporary Tokyo which stands as one of the most technically sophisticated and efficient cities in the world in comparison to the Tokyo with war free 1964, whereby the period signified decaying, ailing and populated third-world megalopolis. During this period the harbour and the city’s primary drivers were immensely immersed with human as well as industrial waste (Sullivan & Leeds, 2016). Addition to this a diminutive rate of 25% of the capitals residence experienced the luxury of a flush toilet and the rest of the services which collected faeces from under the toilets in Japanese homes in transporting them to rice paddies for the use of fertilizers (Liff, 2017). These scenarios however triggered the people to wonder reasons to which the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had voted in 1959 in favour of Tokyo to host the Olympic Games by declining the participation of Greater contemporary cities of Brussels and Vienna. However, the 2020 Olympic insider Tokyo essentially aid garnering the interest of the Japanese rather than relying on solving the IOC for its promised transformation for other countries (Okamoto, 2017).

Horne, (2017) has described that's the Japanese people primarily out of the perspective that foreigners do not have the utmost competence to learn real Japanese language. Japanese language used by foreign characters in Japanese plays, novels and movies tend to reflect strange accent along with several grammatical mistakes. Burrett, (2016)  has stated According to the Japanese foreigners in Japan as long as he is not perceived as an everlasting immigrant receives polite treatment but is always regarded as an outsider to the Japanese society. However in the opinion of Seiger, (2018), if a foreigner intends to speak the Japanese language even with several errors and improper accent he or she is highly acknowledged and welcomed to the Japanese society. Furthermore, scholars like Sullivan & Leeds, (2016) are of the perspective that one of the most vital aspects of teaching the Japanese language is introducing the Japanese cultural elements and norms to the foreigners. Horne, (2017) has recognised that the endeavours have given by Japan primarily emphasised on importing and transplanting, science and technology from highly advanced industrialized nations like Europe and North America. However, it is not always being seen as adequate efforts about the global exchange and contribution in the domains of education, resource and development, culture and sports (Dodgson, 2018).

The increasing rate of exchange of people visiting Japan has caused a significant amount of cultural resistance whereby this friction can be considered as a normal phenomenon in the international community. However, Japan or its major city Tokyo instead of focusing on multiculturalism have shed light on offering insights about the Japanese culture without adopting the culture of other societies and form an undemanding process of cultural exchange (Suboti?, 2016). In the Japanese political context, the primary approach in order to overcome cultural fractions for the Japanese is not to purpose for acquiring a better understanding of other cultures but relied mostly on spreading the Japanese cultural patterns throughout the world. Furthermore determined to introduce the cultural patterns of Japan into other foreign nations is one of the primary aspects of the Japanese technologies of internationalization. Thus Sullivan & Leeds, (2016) have stated that the Japanese idea of multiculturalism signifies anti-multiculturalism. This type of multiculturalism is not intended for the cultural minorities but enhances the cultural patterns of the social and cultural majorities of the Japanese society.

However as Japan is preparing for the 2020 Olympic games which are going to take place in Tokyo, the country along with sports in tourism-related projects which the Olympic preparation primarily requires must take into consideration multicultural issues (Okamoto, 2017). Furthermore, in the view of Hazelkorn, (2015), leading up to 2020 Tokyo government according to reports has embarked upon a series of large-scale construction projects aimed for a new stadium and an Olympic village. Japan has received a substantial amount of repetition as a renowned tourist destination with exceptional hospitality as perceived to the idea of ‘omotenashi’-the spirit of Japanese hospitality (Flake, 2017). With such recognition Kirsch, (2015) has stated that Japan is expected to exhibit a warm welcome to its international guests in the Olympics venue. However as the vast ranging world media descend on Tokyo, several social media personalities will be seeking to find the real view of Japanese culture which includes its prominent site. However, some of the areas of uncelebrated patterns of Japan will also be discussed during the Olympic session that is its way of prejudice towards foreigners (Kirsch, 2015). The Japanese idea of multiculturalism and the way it portrays is anticipated to be exposed by the wide-range media coming from various parts of the world. The areas of concern with multiculturalism are further aggravated because the Japanese ethnic groups are often identified to be ethnically consistent. However, according to Dodgson, (2018), there can be witnessed some distinct look groups within Japan who are recognised as the aboriginals to the Hokkaido area of Japan.

Furthermore, Kirsch, (2015) has posited that some of the efforts shown by the Japanese towards multiculturalism in recent times have become assimilatory. This is because of its reliance on superficial toleration of the distant culture and patterns and escaping social conflict. Kirsch, (2015) has described Japan's internationalization policies to be exclusively identifying cultural exchanges between Japanese people and the foreigners who are either immediate visitors or impermanent immigrants. The purpose of these internationalization policies is to set Japan's individualistic cultural identity through English language education policies by considerably increasing a comprehensive structure of Japanese internationalisation along with the chief qualities of the Japanese culture by concurrently acknowledging the learning of English language (Hazelkorn, 2015).

Conclusion

Hence to conclude, it can be stated that the strict ethno national identity of Japanese is identified to be one of the crucial reasons why multiculturalism has not yet received a strong foothold in Japan. Japanese have developed the notion of homogeneity in their country and have consequently exhibited reluctance towards supporting the idea of multiculturalism. Japanese often oppose in accepting cultural diversity within them for fear of losing their own identity. Although Japan has taken positive steps towards increasing its economy through the influx of inbound tourists, there can be witnessed some mixed information involving multiculturalism which has the evidence in the Japanese society. Multiculturalism requires nurturing realisation and appreciation of ethnic diversity by supported as well as expected minority group identities and culture. In other words, multiculturalism can be based on cultural diversity within the nation. However, past Japan showed the capability to transform specific parts of its nation for a significant event. Many developments were made which Japan has co-hosted in the 2002 World Cup that included accommodating visiting soccer fans. However, multiculturalism does not primarily engage rising inbound visitor rate but needs to impact on massive shock in the appearance of changing parts of the society which the other hosts of Olympic have implemented. The legacies that Olympic game venue leave behind are not inherent in hosting games, but if Japan shows lack of ability in the 2020 Olympic Games to capitalise on the opportunities of addressing multiculturalism issues in its nation, it may leave an uncooperative legacy in the country which it had not planned.

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