The answer is almost certainly “yes.”
Senior International Olympic Committee member Richard Pound was emphatic in an interview with a British newspaper.
“Barring Armageddon that we can’t see or anticipate, these things are a go,” Pound told the Evening Standard.
Tokyo is under a COVID-19 state of emergency, but IOC Vice President John Coates has said the games will open on July 23 – state of emergency, or no state of emergency.
As an exclamation point, Australia’s softball team – the first major group of athletes from abroad to set up an Olympic base in Japan – arrived in Tokyo on Tuesday.