Survey: Majority of Japanese support cancellation of Olympics due to pandemic

This was supported by 59,7 percent of respondents, according to a survey by the Kyodo News agency on Sunday. 25,2 percent of Japanese were in favor of holding the games without an audience. 12,6 percent said the event should take place with a limited number of spectators. In previous surveys, the critical majority was similarly large – or even clearer. In mid-April, 72 percent of Japanese voted in favor of canceling or postponing the Olympic Games and Paralympics, according to Kyodo News. Just on Friday, the governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike, was presented with a petition with more than 350 signatures: Protecting people's lives from the coronavirus and not the Olympics must be the top priority, it demands. A visit to Japan by IOC boss Thomas Bach planned for May 000th and 17th was recently postponed due to the Corona emergency. The Olympic Games had already been postponed for a year due to the Corona crisis; the start is now planned for July 23rd. In June, Japan's Olympic organizers and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) want to decide on the number of spectators allowed at the respective venues. Vaccination campaign is progressing slowly Meanwhile, calls for the games to be canceled are growing louder in Japan, which is battling a fourth wave of coronavirus. The Corona emergency has been in effect in Tokyo since the end of April, and was expanded to nine additional prefectures on Sunday due to the rapidly spreading new variants of the virus. The Japanese also complain that the vaccination campaign is progressing slowly. Since mid-February, only just under one percent of the population of around 125 million has been fully vaccinated.

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Survey: Majority of Japanese support cancellation of Olympics due to pandemic

According to a survey, the majority of Japanese are still in favor of canceling the Olympic Games in Tokyo because of the corona pandemic.

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