China News Service, January 13 According to the Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK) report, on the 13th, NHK’s latest poll results showed that nearly 80% of Japanese respondents believed that the Tokyo Olympics should be postponed again or cancelled.
Data map: The Olympic rings on Tokyo Bay, Japan.
According to reports, the survey was conducted from January 9th to January 11th. The subjects were citizens over 18 years old in Japan. A total of 1,278 people responded effectively.
According to the report, 39% of the respondents believe that the Tokyo Olympics “should be postponed again” and 38% believe that “should be cancelled directly”; on the other hand, only 16% of the respondents believe that “should be held as planned”. Compared with December 2020, this is a significant drop of 11 percentage points.
However, Yoshiro Mori, chairman of the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee, recently stated that it is absolutely impossible to postpone the Tokyo Olympics.
At the same time, regarding whether to accept audiences from overseas under the new crown epidemic, Yoshiro Mori said, "I think in February or March, we need to make very difficult judgments."
Affected by the epidemic, the Tokyo Olympics, which was supposed to be held in the summer of 2020, have been postponed to July 23 to August 8, 2021.