2021-05-14 16:05:59 GMT2021-05-15 00:05:59(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
TOKYO, May 14 (Xinhua) A Japanese lawyer, who launched an online petition calling for the cancelation of this summer s Olympics on Friday, implored Tokyo s government to cancel the Games, saying that protecting people s lives from COVID-19 should take precedence above all else.
The petition has received more than 350,000 signatures from Japan and overseas since it was launched on May 5, and its organizer Kenji Utsunomiya, a former head of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, told a press conference that holding the Olympics had once again become completely untenable. Holding the Olympics should be welcomed by everyone, but that is not possible under the current situation. So the Olympics must be canceled, Utsunomiya said after handing over the petition to Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, with just 70 days to go until the scheduled opening of the already postponed Games.
Japanese lawyer implores Tokyo to cancel Olympics, 350,000 sign petition
Xinhua
15 May 2021, 02:18 GMT+10
TOKYO, May 14 (Xinhua) A Japanese lawyer, who launched an online petition calling for the cancelation of this summer s Olympics on Friday, implored Tokyo s government to cancel the Games, saying that protecting people s lives from COVID-19 should take precedence above all else. The petition has received more than 350,000 signatures from Japan and overseas since it was launched on May 5, and its organizer Kenji Utsunomiya, a former head of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, told a press conference that holding the Olympics had once again become completely untenable.
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