Cabinet adviser resigns after suggesting Japan s COVID-19 cases a ripple
May 24, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
Special Adviser to the Cabinet Yoichi Takahashi is seen in the Diet in this Feb. 21, 2018, file photo. (Mainichi/Masahiro Kawata) TOKYO A Cabinet adviser who stirred controversy by calling the coronavirus pandemic in Japan a mere ripple and suggesting the state of emergency over the virus was seen overseas as nothing resigned on May 24, the government announced. Cabinet adviser Yoichi Takahashi, a professor at Kaetsu University, had tweeted, Even when you say there s a declaration of a state of emergency in Japan, from Europe and the United States points of view, there s no martial law and they probably see it as nothing, using a Japanese metaphor comparing the declaration to a fart.
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KYODO, STAFF REPORT May 24, 2021
A top Japanese government adviser quit his post Monday following a backlash over tweets downplaying the pandemic and laughing off calls for the Olympics to be canceled as the country continues to battle a fourth wave of the coronavirus.
Yoichi Takahashi | KYODO
Kaetsu University professor Yoichi Takahashi on May 9 likened the number of coronavirus cases in Japan to “a ripple,” adding “so you’re telling me people want to cancel the Olympics for this? lol lol.”
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REUTERS May 10, 2021
A tweet by a top Japanese government adviser downplaying the pandemic and laughing off calls for the Olympics to be cancelled is drawing public ire a few days after Japan extended a state of emergency in Tokyo and three other areas until the end of May.
Kaetsu University professor Yoichi Takahashi likened the number of coronavirus cases in Japan to “a ripple,” adding “so you’re telling me people want to cancel the Olympics for this? lol lol.”