Japan PM Suga s Tokyo Olympic reception scrapped
A reception for overseas dignitaries scheduled to be hosted by Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Aug. 8, the day of the Tokyo Olympic closing ceremony, will be canceled, officials familiar with the decision said Thursday.
The reception at a Tokyo hotel was also expected to be attended by officials of the International Olympic Committee, but it will be scrapped due to concern over potential coronavirus infections and as part of efforts to cut costs and scale down the games, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Japanese officials apparently made the decision to cancel the event because a large section of the public is critical of the prime minister s push to hold the games amid the pandemic.
Japan has administered COVID-19 vaccines to more than 10 million people, the Prime Minister s Office says, as the country tries to speed up inoculations that are lagging far behind other developed countries.
you know, i think it s the same that all of us have right now which is anytime we have the sniffles, anytime we have a fever or just don t feel good, i think we instantly start to think, oh, my gosh. do i have covid-19? i think both of us had a laugh about it, but ultimately he was relieved. i was relieved. we ve been on edge the last year, so it s nice to say, i can get through an entire eight-hour shift and not a single covid-19 patient. let s talk, then, about preparing for the next few months in the u.s. we must be clear here. the u.s. has some of the best vaccination rates in the world. the rest of the world is still languishing under terrible rates of infection and also death. but at least for now here in the u.s., folks like you can prepare for the school year and for how to advise people in this pan pandemic. with vaccination rates at the level is, what do you think is important? i think you re starting to
31% of Japanese elderly have no close friends: survey
Over 31 percent of Japanese aged 60 or older say they do not have any close friends, according to a government survey involving elderly populations in Japan, Germany, Sweden and the United States.
In the survey conducted by the Cabinet Office, 31.3 percent of the Japanese respondents said they do not have any close friends of any gender outside their families, a figure far higher than 14.2 percent among U.S. respondents, 13.5 percent among those from Germany and 9.9 percent among Swedish participants. Elderly people wait in an observation room after receiving COVID-19 vaccinations in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on April 12, 2021. The country s roughly 36 million people aged 65 or older are the second group to be inoculated against the novel coronavirus following health care workers. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
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