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May 10, 2021
Yoichi Takahashi.
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TOKYO - A tweet by a top Japanese government advisor 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.
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The tweet has garnered over 13,000 retweets since he posted it on Sunday (May 9).