Yasushi Moriya died on Monday morning when he reportedly jumped in front of a train at Nakanobu Station in Tokyo.
While the IOC remains adamant the Games will go ahead, public opposition in Japan has hardened over the past year.
Japan's death tally from coronavirus is relatively contained compared to other nations—as of Monday morning, Japan had reported just over 763,000 cases of the coronavirus and more than 13,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University—but large parts of the country remain in a state of emergency. Japan has been hampered by a painfully slow vaccine rollout. About 3 percent of adults in the country have been fully vaccinated.shows, Japan lags well behind other countries in the race to vaccinate its entire population.
"It would require too much energy to make and follow through with such a decision. We have been cornered into a situation where we cannot even stop now.Yamaguchi's criticism came just days after the organizing committee admitted 10,000 of the 80,000Last month, IOC vice president John Coates insisted that the Olympics would go ahead"even if Tokyo is still under a state of emergency," during a virtual news conference with Tokyo organizers.
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