Influential Japan Newspaper Calls For Olympics Cancellation
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One of Japan’s most influential newspapers and an official sponsor of the Tokyo Olympics called for the Games to be canceled, the latest blow for an event already postponed by a year because of the pandemic.
The Asahi -- Japan’s second-most widely circulated newspaper and known for its left-leaning views -- urged Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in an editorial Wednesday to call off the world’s biggest sporting event, which is scheduled to start July 23.