China News Service, March 18th. According to Kyodo News, a number of Japanese government officials revealed on the 17th that Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga began to coordinate his absence from the Tokyo Olympic torch relay to be held at the J-Village football facility in Fukushima Prefecture. Departure ceremony.
The reason is that on that day, the parliamentary deliberation of the 2021 budget may usher in a critical juncture, and Yoshihide Suga will give priority to parliamentary affairs.
On August 31, 2020, local time, the torch of the Tokyo Olympics was publicly unveiled at the Olympic Museum in Japan. Starting from September 1, the torch will be exhibited here for two months.
The Tokyo Olympic torch relay postponed to 2021 is scheduled to start from Fukushima Prefecture on March 25. The route will cover all 47 prefectures in Japan. It will last 121 days until the evening of July 23 and arrive at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
In response to the new crown epidemic, the departure ceremony of the torch relay for the Tokyo Olympics is planned to take a non-spectator approach.
Regarding whether to attend, Yoshihide Suga previously stated that he was "under discussion" on the grounds of the parliamentary agenda.
Yoshihide Suga pointed out that this will be a "light of hope" for the reconstruction after the Great East Japan Earthquake, which celebrates its 10th anniversary, and said that "this is an important opportunity for the whole of Japan to truly feel that the Olympics is approaching."
In addition, Seiko Hashimoto, chairman of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee, has expressed his intention to attend the Olympic torch relay.
The Olympic director Marukawa Zhudai also intends to attend.