Japan - Help me understand Tokyo's 2020 Olympic bid

With Japan so desperate to spend the squillions of yen necessary to host an Olympics tournament can anybody give me some of the background of why a top para athlete, 中西麻耶 Maya Nakanishi, is having to sell her (admittedly, very beautiful body) in order to be able to compete in London?
http://www.amazon.co.jp/カレンダープロジェクト-中西麻耶カレンダー-2012-2013/dp/B007DSX31K

Apparently, during the Tokyo 2016 bid, while millions were being squandered there, she missed out on the chance to compete in Beijing (EDIT, sorry, she competed in Beijing, it was a world championship elsewhere she couldn't compete at), so I completely understand the determination to raise funds.

In Britain about £40million was allocated to fund para Athletic sports and activities over 4 years and £80million allocated to the 2012 opening ceremonies.

What's the story in Japan?

With Japan so desperate to spend the squillions of yen necessary to host an Olympics tournament can anybody give me some of the background of why a top para athlete, 中西麻耶 Maya Nakanishi, is having to sell her (admittedly, very beautiful body) in order to be able to compete in London?
Thanks for the link to the calendar... So she's posed for some nude photos. To me they seem to be "tasteful nudes" rather than sordid pr0n, but I guess that's a matter of opinion. Do you have a link to the story that tells you that she had to do this in order to be able to compete?

I think some people choose to pose nude. I guess because it's lucrative and they don't have a problem with it. In this case, the athelete might also see the publication of these photos as an affirmation that she's beautiful despite the prosthetic limb (or because of it? or regardless of whether she has a leg or not?). No?

I'm certainly not passing any judgements on her choice to bare (nearly) all for the calendar. And by doing so she's raised my awareness of how little support para athletes get from the governments and authorities that are so keen to be seen to be supporting them (I have connections to London, Tokyo and Madrid)

There's a bit more here - I hadn't see this until just now, my assumption was that she needed to raise funds for London as she'd missed out on competing in a previous championship. It seems I was on the right track about the underlying motivation:
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/sports/topics/AJ201203210062

I lost my original first post and rushed the replacement one, so I misremembered some of the information. I've corrected the errors I'm aware of.

The calendars have a limited run of 2,000. Looks like a bid to raise awareness. It's just a guess, but I think she might make more money from the Oakley sponsorship that's displayed on her website.

If paralympians get less government support than able-bodied olympians, I agree that there's an injustice that should be corrected. I would favor withdrawing government funding from anything olympic - especially the bribes to corrupt international sporting associations. I don't know why the olympics can't take place every four years in the already adequate sporting facilities that exist in many cities around the world... but that's not a popular opinion, it seems.

Thanks for the link to the calendar... So she's posed for some nude photos. To me they seem to be "tasteful nudes" rather than sordid pr0n, but I guess that's a matter of opinion.

Perhaps the caption "who wants to dress me?" pushes it towards slightly less tasteful?

Anyway, as far as I can tell, Tokyo 2016/2020 Olympics is Gov. Ishihara's vanity project. The fact that this idiot keeps getting elected is a testament to the greying of Japan, as I can't imagine any sane person under 70 years old wanting him as their representative.

Tokyo doesn't even want the Olympics, but of course Ishihara doesn't listen (http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Tokyo+governor+Shintaro+Ishihara+criticizes+citize ns+over+lack+support/6694928/story.html), going so far as to belittle the citizens he governs as "a different species from other Japanese people".

Tokyo proprietors should read this (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2182347/London-Olympics-2012-Businesses-pay-price-1-5m-workers-stay-home-stop-London-seizing-up.html?ICO=most_read_module) before wholeheartedly throwing their support behind Tokyo's Olympic bid...

Tokyo proprietors should read this (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2182347/London-Olympics-2012-Businesses-pay-price-1-5m-workers-stay-home-stop-London-seizing-up.html?ICO=most_read_module) before wholeheartedly throwing their support behind Tokyo's Olympic bid...

A Daily Mail piece? Can I prepare myself mentally first?

A Daily Mail piece? Can I prepare myself mentally first?

You can do a Google News search for London Olympics Business and find a more palatable source. Will NPR suffice?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=157715990

Tokyo proprietors should read this (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2182347/London-Olympics-2012-Businesses-pay-price-1-5m-workers-stay-home-stop-London-seizing-up.html?ICO=most_read_module) before wholeheartedly throwing their support behind Tokyo's Olympic bid...

Thanks for that. Until now, I could only see the downside of the McLympics. However, if it puts mime artists and rickshaw drivers out of business, I'm all in favor.