In Tokyo, discreet celebrations one year from the Olympics, threatened by the virus – Fil info – Tokyo 2020

Tokyo soberly celebrates the start of the countdown to its Olympic Games, Thursday, one year to the day before their scheduled start and while the coronavirus pandemic, which has resulted in their postponement, sows doubt on their behavior. The organizers have planned a modest celebration in the evening from which the general public will be excluded, as the Japanese capital faces a second wave of Covid-19. How far away is the optimism of a year ago, when the Tokyo Games were yet to be held in the summer of 2020 and millions of enthusiastic Japanese flocked to the first tickets on sale. Today Japanese public opinion, fearing that the Olympic Games will spread the Covid-19 even further, mostly wants either a new postponement or a total cancellation of the event, according to several recent polls.