To cancel or not?: IOC, Japan press ahead with Tokyo Olympic Games
(WorldNews Japan)

TOKYO (AP) — Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga declared a state of emergency last week for Tokyo and surrounding areas. Amid the surging virus, he again promised the postponed Tokyo Olympics would be “safe and secure” and tried to disconnect the state of emergency from the fate of the games. But opposition to the Olympics is growing with calls mounting for a cancellation. The International Olympic Committee and local organizers have already said another postponement is impossible, leaving cancellation — or opening on July 23 — as the only options. Two polls published in the last few days by the Japanese news agency Kyodo and Japanese broadcaster TBS show that just...