JapanFlyerT

You would think, although it seems like it might include Japanese who are no longer citizens too. It’s official: Tokyo 2020 is a “Japanese Only” Olympics: Japanese living abroad still allowed to attend, not foreigners. (UPDATED: This probably includes Japanese who have given up their J citizenship.)

hailstorm

Ugh. Debito. Won't click that, but can imagine what it says.

There is no consensus yet what this Olympics will be like with regards to attendance of anybody that's allowed into the country. Kind of hard to say anything definitive when the host town is declaring a state of emergency less than three months before Opening Ceremonies.

evergrn

he says Jpn stinks, Jpn is racist.
learned something new from him

hailstorm

He has a true talent for making himself and everyone else around him miserable.

freecia

Oddly enough (or maybe not as an occasional tourist with a few former JET friends) though I've seen references of debito on reddit, I never knew of him. He sounds like an activist flavor of a Karen who mostly writes along the topics evergrn mentioned? When JCJ has something insightful to say about those alienation talents *shrug* https://www.reddit.com/r/japancircle...u_know_debito/

Anyhow. Wikipedia says he's a Japanese naturalized citizen and reddit mentioned he didn't live in Japan (at some point in 2015)
I'd also go with this regarding re-entry
I did read the post in incognito. "Ugh. Debito" sums it up.

JP tickets will be shipped via registered JP post to the registered spectator name https://ticket.tokyo2020.org/Service...l?NoticeSeq=65
It looks like Japan Olympic tickets were offered a refund five months ago or so
https://www.reddit.com/r/japanlife/c...ckets/gv5bfog/
https://www.reddit.com/r/japanlife/c...icket_refunds/
Some of the fees were refunded https://gtimg.tokyo2020.org/image/up...luj15disdm.pdf

5khours

+1

jib71

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Im a new user

I've always wondered, if you enter the Northern Territories or Takeshima and then head to an area controlled by Japan, would you then be issued with a 出国命令 (or worse, go through the 退去強制 procedure) for entering Japan without presenting yourself to an immigration officer?

Was this the post where someone asked for maps showing southern Karafuto as terra nullius? I searched for 世界地図 on Japanese Amazon and found several of them:

I think that the reason is that Japan signed the Treaty of San Francisco and thus renounced all claims to southern Karafuto and to Chishima (from Uruppu) but the Soviet Union never signed the treaty so the areas never become Soviet (or Russian) territory. I presume that Chishima also is marked as terra nullius on the maps, but the islands are too small to see this.

yusiye

Do you have more info on this yacht entry?

armagebedar

I think that's enough of the derail about about what is or isn't Japanese territory. Please stay on topic.

Regards,
armagebedar
Japan forum moderator

chichow

hey @nnn

From CoSport

April 23, 2021

Dear CoSport Customer,

Re: Refund Request Received and Processed

Thank you for completing the refund request form and initiating your Tokyo 2020 refund process. We have submitted your request to the Tokyo 2020 organizers and relevant third parties.

We remain very disappointed by the decision to ban international guests from the Olympic Games but are absolutely committed to working with you through the refund process being determined by Tokyo 2020 and Japanese authorities. As mentioned previously, this refund process regrettably will take time as the organizers and relevant third parties continue to work through the impact of the pandemic. After Tokyo 2020 has returned the requisite funds to us – which they have indicated will take up to the third quarter of this year – we will need some time to process your refund.

To shorten this phase, we will try to collect the information we will need to process your refund in advance, so in the coming weeks we will send an information request form. One of the key learnings from last year’s refund process is that we cannot simply reverse the credit card charges because, since the purchases were made so long ago, the financial institutions have removed from their systems the transaction data we need to do so. And because financial regulations do not allow CoSport to retain your bank or credit card information after a transaction has been completed, we will need to recollect some basic information. By your providing this information in advance, we should be able to shorten the time we need to process your refund.

We recognize a refund will not cure the disappointment, but we will do what we can within our control to hasten the process. We also will continue to share updates related to this process as we receive them.

Best regards,


Robert F. Long
President, CoSport

chichow

For those that ordered tickets from CoSport did your card statement say CoSport?

Mine showed Jet Set Sports

nnn

I think mine said Jet Set also. Yep -- also got the email from CoSport about refunds. Based on how long it took for folks to get refunds who cancelled their tickets last year, I figured we should consider ourselves lucky to see the money this year.

chichow

Sorry it's a long thread.

Would you be able to tell me how long people waited to get the $$$ back last time?

chichow

article snippet from first link:

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The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee, which has selected CoSport as its ATR since 2002, declined to comment.

None of this back-and-forth provides much solace to customers, who wonder why CoSport wasn’t insured against unexpected developments. Team GB, the British ATR, reportedly carried insurance, and has now promised full refunds.

CoSport, which operates in several countries, claims it could not find suitable coverage in the U.S. market. “We’re an agent for the event, not the event organizer,” Dizdarevic said. “We’re not making the decisions at the end of the day.”

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https://www.latimes.com/sports/olymp...ticket-refunds

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...0ca_story.html


https://www.travelweekly.com.au/arti...mpics-tickets/