Polls show that between 60% and 80% of Japanese people want the Tokyo Olympics to be canceled or delayed.
reached 300,000 signatures online in three days amid public opposition in Japan to holding the Summer Games in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the Associated Press reported.
"Of course I would say I want the Olympics to happen, because I'm an athlete and that's sort of what I've been waiting for my entire life. But I think that there's so much important stuff going on, and especially the past year," Naomi Osaka, who will be one of Japan's representatives at the Games, said on Sunday.
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