{"id":20718,"date":"2020-07-19T16:29:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T07:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/19\/a-year-to-go-but-does-tokyo-still-want-to-host-the-olympics-after-covid"},"modified":"2020-07-19T16:29:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T07:29:43","slug":"a-year-to-go-but-does-tokyo-still-want-to-host-the-olympics-after-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20718","title":{"rendered":"A year to go, but does Tokyo still want to host the Olympics after Covid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public enthusiasm for next year\u2019s Games is waning, as city believes Covid-19 infections will \u2018flare up\u2019 if it pushes ahead<\/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>This Wednesday the reset Olympic countdown clock will show there are 365 days to go until the opening ceremony of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/olympic-games-2020\" title=\"\">Tokyo Games<\/a>. But with a year left to finalise arrangements, the prospects for a traditional Olympic spectacle in the city are looking grim.<\/p>\n<p>Even if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\" title=\"\">Japan<\/a>, which has seen a comparatively <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/22\/from-near-disaster-to-success-story-how-japan-has-tackled-coronavirus\" title=\"\">low number of infections and deaths<\/a>, could contain the outbreak, the virus is expected to rampage through the US, Brazil, India and other parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/19\/a-year-to-go-but-does-tokyo-still-want-to-host-the-olympics-after-covid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public enthusiasm for next year\u2019s Games is waning, as city believes Covid-19 infections will \u2018flare up\u2019 if it pushes aheadCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThis Wednesday the reset Olympic countdown clock will show there are 3&#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":[1069,88,342,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-japan","category-olympic-games","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20718","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=20718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20719,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20718\/revisions\/20719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}