{"id":16335,"date":"2020-03-25T15:48:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T06:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/25\/massively-let-down-disappointment-in-japan-after-tokyo-olympics-postponed"},"modified":"2020-03-25T15:48:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T06:48:34","slug":"massively-let-down-disappointment-in-japan-after-tokyo-olympics-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16335","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Massively let down&#8217;: disappointment in Japan after Tokyo Olympics postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IOC decision to put off the event a second blow for businesses already reeling from costs of coronavirus pandemic<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On Tuesday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/olympic-games-2020\">Tokyo 2020<\/a> countdown clock showed there were just 122 days to go before the Olympics opening ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>By Wednesday morning, the clock, outside the Tokyo station building, simply displayed the current date and time. The switch was so sudden that commuters paused to take photos.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/25\/massively-let-down-disappointment-in-japan-after-tokyo-olympics-postponed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IOC decision to put off the event a second blow for businesses already reeling from costs of coronavirus pandemicCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOn Tuesday, the Tokyo 2020 countdown clock showed there were just 122 days to g&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1069,914,88,882,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-japan","category-tokyo-olympic-games-2020","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16336,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16335\/revisions\/16336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}