Nearly 50 years after a Tokyo man was evicted from his home to make way for the 1964 games' Olympic stadium, the 79-year-old is once again being told he has to move. This time to make room for the newly awarded 2020 games.

Kohei Jinno looks at pictures of his family beside their central Tokyo home, a house they were forced to leave ahead of the 1964 Olympic Games to make way for construction of the main stadium.

Now Jinno, 79, has to move again.

The public housing complex where he and his wife live, close to the stadium and the site of his former home – currently a parking lot – is slated to be destroyed as part of construction of a new stadium for the 2020 Summer Olympics, which Tokyo won the right to host again earlier this month.

“Fate has not been kind to me. It may be great fortune for the nation, but having to leave this place fills me with sadness,” he told Reuters.

“I just feel that had it not been for the Olympics, my life would have been so different.”