{"id":28583,"date":"2021-02-17T14:52:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T05:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/17\/threat-to-olympic-torch-relay-as-japan-starts-vaccination-rollout"},"modified":"2021-02-17T14:52:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T05:52:11","slug":"threat-to-olympic-torch-relay-as-japan-starts-vaccination-rollout-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28583","title":{"rendered":"Threat to Olympic torch relay as Japan starts vaccination rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Games are due to begin in July but Shimane prefecture says it might pull out of the prestigious pre-Games event <\/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>The head of a prefecture in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> has said the area is considering pulling out of the Olympic torch relay, as the nation became the latest major economy to begin its vaccine rollout.<\/p>\n<p>Tatsuya Maruyama, the governor of Shimane prefecture, said on Wednesday that it could withdraw from the key Olympic event and has called for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/olympic-games-2020\">Tokyo 2020 Games<\/a> to be cancelled due to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus<\/a> pandemic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/17\/threat-to-olympic-torch-relay-as-japan-starts-vaccination-rollout\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Games are due to begin in July but Shimane prefecture says it might pull out of the prestigious pre-Games event Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe head of a prefecture in Japan has said the area is considering pulling o&#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":[41,1066,914,88,882],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-japan","category-tokyo-olympic-games-2020"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28583","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=28583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28586,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28583\/revisions\/28586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}