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Chairman Bach, who was scheduled to attend the Tokyo Olympic torch relay event next week, postponed his plans to visit Japan. It seems to be related to the growing voice of opposition to the Olympics in Japan, and Prime Minister Suga has repeatedly denied the possibility of canceling the Olympics.



Correspondent Yoo Seong-jae came from Tokyo.



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Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee has announced that next week's IOC Chairman Bach's visit to Japan has been postponed.



Chairman Bach was scheduled to hold a meeting with Prime Minister Suga the following day after attending the torch relay event in Hiroshima on the 17th.



However, it seems that the visit to Japan has been delayed as the corona emergency situation in Tokyo and others has been extended until the end of this month and negative public opinion about the Olympics has spread.



In the Yomiuri Shimbun's last weekend poll, nearly 60% of the people said that the Tokyo Olympics should be canceled, and the number of people who agreed to sign the campaign against the hosting of the Olympics, which began on the 5th, exceeded 300,000.



In front of the Tokyo Main Stadium, a rally was held yesterday (9th) calling for the cancellation of the Olympics.



[Stop the Olympics right now!] Even



today, the Japanese parliament was criticized by lawmakers saying that the Olympics should be canceled in order to focus on corona countermeasures, but Prime Minister Suga has not bent his will.



[Yamya/Constitutional Democratic House of Representatives: Do you mean that you will have the Olympics even if the 3rd stage of the infection surge and the 4th stage of the infection burst?]



[Suga/Japanese Prime Minister: We will definitely take measures against infection of players and officials so that they can participate in peace and protect the lives and health of the people.] We have



already spent more than 10 trillion won in hosting expenses, and at the beginning of next year, the Beijing Winter Olympics. The Japanese media analyzes that they are holding back even the pride competition that is conscious of that.



(Video coverage: Han Cheol-min·Moon Hyun-jin, Video editing: Choi Jin-hwa)