Looks like the games ain't happening

A nationwide survey in Japan, conducted between May 7 and 9, by the conservative Yomiuri Shimbun, showed 59 per cent wanted the Games cancelled as opposed to 39 per cent who said they should be held.

Earlier this week, the all-powerful, Asahi Shimbun, Japan’s No 1 newspaper by far, ran a damning editorial on the Tokyo Olympics demanding “that Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga evaluate the situation calmly and objectively, and decide against holding the Olympics and Paralympics this summer”.

Masayoshi Son, head of tech investment behemoth, SoftBank tweeted last weekend, “Do the IOC have the right to decide if it’s held or not?” He added, “If you think about what people have to put up with, we might have a lot more to lose if the games go ahead.” Earlier, Hiroshi Mikitani, CEO of e-commerce giant