Berita 24 English - Masayoshi Son, founder and CEO of SoftBank Group Corp, expressed renewed doubt on Saturday about the viability of Tokyo...
Berita 24 English - Masayoshi Son, founder and CEO of SoftBank Group Corp, expressed renewed doubt on Saturday about the viability of Tokyo's postponed Summer Olympics during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"At the moment, more than 80% of people want the Olympics postponed or cancelled. Who is forcing it through, and on what authority?" Son stated in Japanese on Twitter https://twitter.com/masason/status/1395955033036918785?s=20.
Last week, the billionaire expressed "fear." https://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-2020-japan-softbank-idUKKBN2CU0ZL of staging the Olympics in the midst of a pandemic. Polls consistently show that the majority of Japanese citizens oppose holding the Games in their current form.
According to a Reuters Corporate Survey released on Friday, roughly 70% of large Japanese companies also want the Games delayed or cancelled, following the authorities' year-long postponement of the 2020 event due to the pandemic.
However, a senior International Olympic Committee official stated on Friday that the Games would proceed "without a doubt" even if the capital remained in a state of emergency, citing "all of the plans we have in place to ensure the athletes' and the Japanese people's safety and security."
