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TOKYO (Reuters) â Japanese cheerleaders danced and waved pom poms outside a Tokyo train station on Thursday to show their support for Olympic athletes the day before the pandemic-postponed Summer Games finally get underway.
âLetâs support them with all our strength!â head cheerleader Kumi Asazuma shouted to passers-by outside Shimbashi Station as the four-person squad clapped and kicked their legs to the beat of Tony Basilâs 1980âs classic âHey Mickeyâ.
Squad members held up signs saying âTo all athletesâ, âFight!â, and âTokyo 2020â with an image of the Olympic rings, as they performed in the blazing sun with temperatures already topping 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) before 9 a.m.
9 Jan 2021
A Japanese cheerleading squad danced and cheered to raise commuters’ spirits outside a major Tokyo metro station on Thursday as the national capital headed into a one-month coronavirus lockdown.
“Let’s go, fight!” the four-woman squad shouted as they pumped shiny golden pom-poms into the chilly morning air at Shimbashi Station, a major interchange rail station in central Tokyo.
“I think it’s wonderful what they’re doing in the current situation,” office worker Tomoko Tsudanuma, 48, told Reuters on Thursday outside Shimbashi Station.
“I’ll be working at home from next week and it’s hard but I feel encouraged from watching this kind of activity,” she said of the cheer squad’s energetic performance, which included upbeat music and brightly colored outfits. The cheerleaders also engaged some commuters with pep talks and fist pumps while wearing masks.
The Japan Girls Cheer Club has been performing at stations in Tokyo for a while now. Cheerleaders in Japan try to lift the public s spirits during COVID-19. | Photo Credit: Reuters
Tokyo: Let s go, fight!
Donning a colorful attire and face shields and holding pom-poms in their hands, a four-person cheerleading squad was seen pepping the commuters up at the Shimbashi station in Tokyo ahead of the one-month long emergency Japan will go into to combat the sudden surge in the COVID-19 cases in the country.
The squad came from the Japan Girls Cheer Club. Headed by Kumi Asazuma, the group has been performing for around 10 years and are seen every morning at the metro station, energizing the commuters to seize the day to their fullest potential.
TOKYO - Japanese cheerleaders danced and cheered on commuters outside a Tokyo rail station on Thursday (Jan 7) in a bid to lift spirits with the capital heading into another state of emergency over the Covid-19 pandemic. “Let’s go, fight!” the four-person squad shouted out to passers-by in front of Shimbashi Station, with their protective face shields fogging up in.