When the Olympic Games came to Tokyo in 1964, tobacco salesman Kohei Jinno was forced to give up his shop and home to make way for the construction of a park around the National Olympic Stadium in Kasumigaoka. For two years, Jinno survived and supported his family though odd jobs, until he was able to open a new tobacco shop in the shadow of the Stadium in 1966. With the 2020 Olympics coming to Tokyo, and plans the reconstruction of a massive new National Stadium moving forward, Jinno faces eviction for the second time in his life.

Via the Japan Times:

Roads will be built or repaired at a cost of $5.5 billion. Some 85 percent of the venues will be within 8 km of the $1.1 billion Olympic Village, which will be build on landfill not far from the upscale Ginza district. The crown jewel, an 80,000-seat main stadium, will be built with a retractable roof at a cost of $1.3 billion — in a shape that calls to mind a cycling helmet, on the site of the old Olympic stadium.

The increased size of the new stadium (to be built atop the site the old National Stadium, which is scheduled to be demolished in 2015) means that Jinno’s apartment complex will be demolished. According to the Japan Times, city officials will offer current residents of Jinno’s building — a third of whom are over the age of 70 — a spot in a different apartment complex.

“Probably I may go where you cannot set up a tobacco shop. That means I will lose my reason for living…. I don’t want to see the Olympics at all. Deep inside, I have a kind of grudge against the Olympics.”

(Thanks to Deadspin for bringing this to our attention.)