Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Antipode" in Malay language version.
Only about three percent of the surface of the earth is anitpodal land.
Remarkably, it was all the brainchild of one of Abe’s predecessors. “The starting point of our performance was that Brazil is on the opposite side of the world from Japan, and so President Mori (Yoshiro Mori, Prime Minister of Japan 2000-2001 and now President of TOCOG) came up with the idea of showing a tunnel being bored between the famous ‘Scramble’ pedestrian crossing in Shibuya (Tokyo) all the way through the earth to the Olympic Stadium in Rio, and having Prime Minister Abe make an appearance,” Takaya explained.