Construction of the stadium for Tokyo's 2020 Olympics is only 8 months behind schedule because due to allegations of bid rigging for demolition of the old national stadium. Not that most of the construction industry is controlled by the Yakuza or anything. Wink, wink and they want their fair share of the kickbacks, payoffs and profits that come with large scale construction projects.
It just shows you where the governments priorities lie. There still thousands of people in Northern Japan still living in temporary housing following the March 11 2011 earthquake and tsunami. That was almost four years ago and those people have seen little relief from the government.
Demolition work was supposed to begin last July but the project has been plagued by bid-rigging suspicions.
Some of the bids were reviewed by someone in the decision committee before all bids were in, a violation of the rules, according to the Japan Sport Council, which owns the stadium.
There have been other problems in the bidding as well.
In the first round of bidding, announced last March, all the bids surpassed the estimated costs and were rejected in May. In June, it was found that some bids were lower than the level set as the standard. A month later, complaints of bid-rigging surfaced. But an internal investigation in July and August found no evidence of bid-rigging, the council said in a statement last month.
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