Tokyo 2020 sponsor Toyota pulls Olympics TV ads and neither the carmaker’s president nor other top executives will be attending the opening ceremony later this week.
Tokyo residents reached via text message by NBC News were unsparing in their criticism of staging the games while in the midst of a pandemic. All were young people who asked to be identified either by their initials or just their first name.
“No one in my circle knows exactly when the Olympics are and to be spending so much money for something half the country doesn’t care about while on lockdown is stupid,” she said. “It’s probably a pride thing but it would be much cooler to be the country that canceled a once-in-a-lifetime chance for the sake of humanity.”
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