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[Link] It’s 2021, and Tokyo Authorities Are Finally Phasing Out Floppy Disks
Read: 29/11/2021 www.vice.com
A thin magnetic disk used to keep data, floppy disks were once the primary storage device for personal computers. But as technology advanced, the disks were replaced by CDs and flash drives. Floppies have been out of production for more than a decade.
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[Link] 'Sad, lonely feeling': Tokyo man evicted twice, 50 years apart, for Olympic construction
Read: 4/7/2021 www.reuters.com
1/6Kohei Jinno, 87, who was forced to leave his house two times ahead of the 1964 and 2020 Olympics Games to make way for construction of the main stadium, speaks in front of the Olympic Rings monument outside the Japan Olympic Museum near the National Stadium, the main stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Ol
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[Link] Tokyo Olympics: poll shows 60% of Japanese people want Games cancelled
Read: 10/5/2021 www.theguardian.com
Preparations for Tokyo Olympics have suffered another setback after a poll found that nearly 60% of people in Japan want them to be cancelled, less than three months before the Games are due to open.
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