Olympic volunteer Muramatsu posing for a photo in front of Sekisui Heim Super Arena, which was used as a morgue after the 2011 earthquake, also known as the Great East Japan Earthquake, in Rifu, Japan. Photos: Chisato Tanaka/AP
Atsushi Muramatsu’s handmade flyers are the size of a business card, written in several languages.
“Welcome to Miyagi Stadium,” one reads. “The gymnasium next door was the largest morgue for tsunami victims.
”Over a decade after the massive earthquake and tsunami devastated northeastern Japan, the Tokyo Games were supposed to offer a chance to showcase how much has been rebuilt.
They were even billed as the “Recovery and Reconstruction Games”, and the Olympic torch relay started from Fukushima prefecture, the heart of the nuclear disaster area.
Muramatsu showing the business-card size flyers he made to express gratitude for support from overseas which he hands out to foreign media covering the 2020 Summer Olympics at Miyagi Stadium, where he is serving as a volunteer.
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