Tottori festival contractor disputes organizer's account of setup failures

After vendors described missing tents and electricity, the organizer and setup contractor offered conflicting accounts of preparations and payment deadlines.

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【鳥取グルメイベント騒動】主催者側が“不備”指摘も…設営業者側｢事実と異なる｣食い違う主張_

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0:26The organizer apologizes and cites weather, sabotage and contractor problems as explanations for the disruption.
1:07A fried chicken vendor describes missing tents, scattered furniture and no electricity on arrival.
1:46The setup contractor rejects the organizer's account as substantially inaccurate.
1:52The report compares conflicting accounts of equipment preparations and payment deadlines.
3:14Some vendors have received payments; others have been notified that bank transfers were processed.
3:43The organizer promises to settle payments sequentially and address the outstanding issues.

The setup contractor for a troubled food festival in Japan has rejected the organizer's account of what went wrong, adding a dispute over responsibility to vendors' complaints about conditions at the venue.

Japan's Nippon Television News reports that LOCAL FOOD FIGHT in TOTTORI, held in Tottori Prefecture the previous weekend, had aimed to attract 50,000 visitors but drew just over 500. Its November 11 news zero report follows an apology published by the organizer's representative on social media.

The representative cited weather, sabotage and problems with contractors as explanations for the disruption. Those are the organizer's explanations, not established findings. The statement also criticized the work of the setup, stage and sound providers.

A fried chicken vendor described arriving to find tents not erected, tables and chairs left scattered, and no electricity. Those practical problems were central to the complaints we reported here earlier; the new report brings the contractor's response into the account.

In its own social media statement, the setup contractor said the organizer's remarks differed substantially from the facts. The report sets the two accounts alongside each other, including disagreements about equipment preparations and payment deadlines. It does not establish a resolution of those disagreements.

There was some movement on payments to vendors. According to the report, some received money on the day of the broadcast, while others were notified that bank transfers had been processed. The organizer said payments would be settled sequentially and promised to address the outstanding issues sincerely.

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