Tokyo Olympics: "A majority of the population considers that the Olympics should be canceled"
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Lawyer Kenji Utsunomiya, representing an anti-Olympics collective at a press conference, May 14, 2021, in Tokyo.
He presents a petition submitted to the Tokyo government asking for the cancellation of the Olympics.
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By: Jean-Baptiste Marot Follow
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With less than ten weeks before the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games scheduled for July 23, and although the health situation in Japan is currently very worrying, it seems that the authorities have decided this year to maintain the competition at all costs. .
No question for them to cancel or postpone the Olympics once again, as a majority of the Japanese population wishes. To talk about it, Jean-Baptiste Marot is online with Raphaël Languillon-Aussel, teacher and researcher in geography and development at the University of Geneva.
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► Raphaël Languillon-Aussel is the author of the book
The Japanese
published by Ateliers Henry Dougier and of the article
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The postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics: from planning conflicts to the health crisis
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