Around 3,500 city volunteers have quit Tokyo Games Xinhua | Updated: 2021-06-07 09:36 Share CLOSE Emiko Hara, Senior Manager Anti-Doping Section, Medical Services Department, Games Operations Bureau speaks to participants during the online field cast volunteer training at the Tokyo 2020 headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, April 10, 2021. [Photo/Agencies]
TOKYO - About 3,500 out of more than 40,000 volunteers have withdrawn from their role as city guides for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Japan s state broadcaster NHK said that according to the withdrawal numbers released by nine out of the 11 hosting prefectural governments that recruited city volunteers, Chiba Prefecture topped the list with 1,083 withdrawals by the end of last month, followed by Miyagi with about 800 and Fukushima with about 630.