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Half of Japan's public favours holding the Tokyo Olympics this summer, a new survey showed Monday.
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Half of Japan's public favours holding the Tokyo Olympics this summer, a new survey showed Monday.
The Tokyo Olympics are "100 percent" certain to go ahead, the chief organiser said Thursday.
Australia's softball team became the first athletes to land in Japan for the Olympics on Tuesday, in a major milestone for the pandemic-postponed Games.
Japan will extend a coronavirus state of emergency in Tokyo and other areas until just a month before the Olympics.
A Tokyo medical group warned that the Olympics should be held without spectators because of virus risks.
Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper, an official Tokyo Olympics sponsor, called for the Games to be cancelled.
Cancelling the Tokyo Olympics in response to mounting public opposition would be an unparalleled act in peacetime.
A Japanese doctors' group has urged the cancellation of the Olympics, even as Games organisers reported a surplus of applications from medics.
World Athletics chief Sebastian Coe said Sunday he believes the coronavirus-postponed Tokyo Olympics can be "a beacon of hope and optimism".
International Olympic Committee vice-president John Coates was adamant Saturday that nothing could stop the Tokyo Olympics from going ahead.