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Japanese Lawyer Implores Tokyo to Cancel Olympics, 350,000 Sign Petition

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Laila Afifa

15 May 2021 18:45 WIB

Miniature of National Stadium, the main stadium of Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, is seen in a 1:1000 scale version of Tokyo at Mori Building Urban Lab in Tokyo, Japan, April 26, 2021. The Urban Lab project at Tokyo's Mori Building features a 1:1000 scale model of Tokyo that represents about 230 square kilometres (89 square miles) - the 13 wards at the heart of the Japanese capital. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A Japanese lawyer, who launched an online petition calling for the cancelation of this summer's Olympics on Friday, implored Tokyo's government to cancel the Games, saying that protecting people's lives from COVID-19 should take precedence above all else.

The petition has received more than 350,000 signatures from Japan and overseas since it was launched on May 5, and its organizer Kenji Utsunomiya, a former head of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, told a press conference that holding the Olympics had once again become completely untenable.

"Holding the Olympics should be welcomed by everyone, but that is not possible under the current situation. So the Olympics must be canceled," Utsunomiya said after handing over the petition to Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, with just 70 days to go until the scheduled opening of the already postponed Games.

"It is a question of which should be prioritized, people's lives or the event itself," added Utsunomiya, amid increased domestic opposition to hosting the Games with Japan in the grip of a fourth wave of infections and Tokyo itself, along with other major urban areas, under a third state of emergency.

Utsunomiya highlighted the fact that Japan is still grappling with the pandemic as many other countries are around the world.

He said that the number of patients designated as being in a "serious condition" remains on an upward trajectory and is increasingly straining medical facilities in the country.

If the Games were to go ahead, Japan's limited medical resources would become even more compromised, he added.

Utsunomiya also said the Games can only be held under a condition where they are completely supported from all over the world, including by the host country and city, otherwise they should be scrapped.

The lawyer added that he has also sent a request for the Games to be canceled to the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee, saying that his mission to collect signatures would continue until the Games are canceled.

The "Stop Tokyo Olympics" petition has been translated into Japanese, English, French and German, and has also been addressed to Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. 

Read: Tokyo Olympics Chief Commits to Games as Infections Surge

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