Japan Expands Emergency As Opposition to Olympics Grows
OOLYMPICS|LYMPICS Page 2 GGOLFOLF | Page 7 Skateboarders Spieth shares look forward PGA Byron to changing Nelson lead minds in Japan aft er 63 Saturday, May 15, 2021 FOOTBALL Shawwal 3, 1442 AH Tuchel aims to GULF TIMES harness Chelsea ‘anger’ in FA Cup fi nal SPORT Page 3 SPOTLIGHT Japan expands emergency as opposition to Olympics grows ‘I think the Olympics this time is about whether we prioritise life or a ceremony and event called the Olympics’ AFP Tokyo apan expanded a coronavi- rus state of emergency yes- terday, just 10 weeks before the Olympics, as campaign- Jers submitted a petition with more than 350,000 signatures calling for the Games to be scrapped. With Tokyo and other areas already under emergency orders until the end of May, three more regions — including northern Hokkaido, which will host the Ol- ympic marathon — now join them. Lawyer Kenji Utsunomiya shows off placards as he attends a news “Today, we decided to add conference after submitting a petition calling for the Tokyo 2020 Hokkaido, Okayama and Hiro- Olympics to be cancelled to Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike shima to the area under the state (not in picture) at the Tokyo Metropolitan Off ice Press Club in Tokyo. of emergency from May 16 to 31,” Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga was “really remote”. port teams will be arriving having said. “We want to provide this feeling been vaccinated.” In these regions, “the popu- of certainty,” Parsons said. In Japan, however, one of the lation is relatively big and the “Because we see that the anger country’s most prominent busi- number of new cases is very rap- comes from this concept that it’s nessmen, SoftBank CEO Masay- idly increasing”, he said.
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