"Osaka Needs No Olympics" citizens' union OSAKA, JAPAN

Feb 26, 2001

To members of IOC sellection comittee Please Allow us to send you another letter. We've written you 3 times. We express great respect to the achievement which you have done. By the way, It was revealed that the public opinions have been different from the results of the questionaires by Osaka city. It was reported by an article on the Mainichi Newspapers, which is one of the most influencial newspaper in Japan, on February 7. It was the opinion of the 1054 Japanese people collected by phone, about that Osaka-city's bid for the Olympics in 2008. We would like you to do a wise judgment based on the fact. A part of the articles is as below. 1.Do you oppose to, or approve of the Olympics in Osaka? Total man woman Approval 55% 60% 51% Opposite 28 29 27 2.Are you interest in the Olympics in Osaka? Total man woman Interested in it very much 14% 21% 9% Interested in it a little 37 34 39 Not interestes in it very much 30 26 32 Not interested in it at all 13 15 12 Yours Respectfully KONISHI, Kazuto President http://www.interq.or.jp/osaka/xgorin/