Masks with the flag and posters: Japan welcomes Italian athletes

TOKYO – Okyakusama wa kamisama it seems like a modern tongue twister instead it is an ancient maxim, the Japanese equivalent of our “the customer is always right”. Except that here the customer is placed on a slightly higher pedestal, he is literally a “god”. And so also the 150 Italian athletes who have just landed in Tokorozawa (Saitama prefecture) and the 25 of the softball team in Sendai will have felt: the avant-garde of the Olympic teams that will soon arrive in Japan from all over the world.