Do media events still unite the host nation’s citizens? The case of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

• Takeshi Sakaki ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Takeshi Sakaki, Tetsuro Kobayashi, Mitsuo Yoshida, Fujio Toriumi

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sakaki@ipr-ctr.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp (TS); tkobayas@cityu.edu.hk (TK); mitsuo@gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp (MY); tori@sys.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp (FT)

  Affiliation Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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• Tetsuro Kobayashi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Takeshi Sakaki, Tetsuro Kobayashi, Mitsuo Yoshida, Fujio Toriumi

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: sakaki@ipr-ctr.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp (TS); tkobayas@cityu.edu.hk (TK); mitsuo@gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp (MY); tori@sys.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp (FT)

  Affiliation Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

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• Mitsuo Yoshida ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Takeshi Sakaki, Tetsuro Kobayashi, Mitsuo Yoshida, Fujio Toriumi

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sakaki@ipr-ctr.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp (TS); tkobayas@cityu.edu.hk (TK); mitsuo@gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp (MY); tori@sys.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp (FT)

  Affiliation Faculty of Business Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0735-1116

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• Fujio Toriumi

  Contributed equally to this work with: Takeshi Sakaki, Tetsuro Kobayashi, Mitsuo Yoshida, Fujio Toriumi

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sakaki@ipr-ctr.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp (TS); tkobayas@cityu.edu.hk (TK); mitsuo@gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp (MY); tori@sys.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp (FT)

  Affiliation School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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