Kyodo News Report
The torch relay event was also unattended
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Kyodo News reported on the 9th, citing multiple officials, that the Japanese government has decided to hold the Tokyo Olympics without foreign spectators. Initially, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) planned to decide whether to accept overseas spectators at the end of this month, but analysis shows that the Japanese government made a quick decision based on the judgment that it was difficult for foreign tourists to enter the country due to the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19). .
Kyodo News Agency reported that next week, officials from the government, the Olympic Organizing Committee, and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will gather to reaffirm the policy.
Meanwhile, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic torch departing event, which is held in the context of Corona 19, is also expected to be held in the absence of general audience.
The tournament organizer is planning to hold a torch relay departure event at the’J Village’, a soccer facility in Fukushima Prefecture, on the 25th. According to the Yomiuri Shimbun, the event organizers decided to hold this event without spectators to prevent the infection of Corona 19.
The torch of the Tokyo Olympics was lit on March 12 last year at the temple of Hera in Olympia, Greece, the birthplace of the ancient Olympics.
Seonghwa, which arrived at the Air Self-Defense Force base in Miyagi Prefecture on March 20 last year on a special transport plane jointly operated by the two major Japanese airlines, departed J Village 6 days later and traveled to 47 prefectures across Japan for 121 days. I was going to go on a tour.
However, as a decision was made to postpone the Olympics for one year, the Bongsong was also stopped before departure.
/ Reporter Park Seong-gyu [email protected]
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