{"id":30967,"date":"2021-04-15T15:17:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T06:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/15\/cancelling-tokyo-olympics-remains-an-option-top-japanese-politician-2020"},"modified":"2021-04-15T15:17:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T06:17:36","slug":"cancelling-tokyo-olympics-remains-an-option-says-top-japanese-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30967","title":{"rendered":"Cancelling Tokyo Olympics \u2018remains an option\u2019 says top Japanese politician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toshihiro Nikai\u2019s comments are at odds with the united front presented by the Japanese government<\/p>\n<p>A senior member of Japan\u2019s ruling party has said that cancelling the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/olympic-games-2020\">Tokyo Olympics<\/a> \u201cremains an option\u201d if the coronavirus pandemic continues to worsen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it seems impossible to do it any more, then we have to stop, decisively,\u201d Toshihiro Nikai, secretary general of the Liberal Democratic party, said in a TV interview that has yet to be aired.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/15\/cancelling-tokyo-olympics-remains-an-option-top-japanese-politician-2020\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toshihiro Nikai\u2019s comments are at odds with the united front presented by the Japanese governmentA senior member of Japan\u2019s ruling party has said that cancelling the Tokyo Olympics \u201cremains an option\u201d if the coronavirus pandemic continues to worsen.\u201cIf&#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":[41,88,342,203,882,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-olympic-games","category-sport","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\/30967","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=30967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30968,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30967\/revisions\/30968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}