{"id":32782,"date":"2021-06-04T19:18:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T10:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/04\/tokyo-cornered-into-going-ahead-with-games-says-olympic-official"},"modified":"2021-06-04T19:18:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T10:18:30","slug":"tokyo-cornered-into-going-ahead-with-games-says-olympic-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32782","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo cornered into going ahead with Games, says Olympic official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Member of Japanese Olympic Committee criticises IOC and says Games will leave a \u2018bitter taste\u2019<\/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>A senior Japanese Olympic official has criticised the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for ignoring public concerns over holding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/olympic-games-2020\">Tokyo 2020 Games<\/a> during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>In the strongest objections from inside the Olympic movement so far, Kaori Yamaguchi, an executive member of the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC), said Tokyo had been \u201ccornered\u201d into going ahead with the Games despite widespread public opposition, and warned they would leave a \u201cbitter taste\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/04\/tokyo-cornered-into-going-ahead-with-games-says-olympic-official\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Member of Japanese Olympic Committee criticises IOC and says Games will leave a \u2018bitter taste\u2019Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA senior Japanese Olympic official has criticised the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for ig&#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":[41,1066,2206,88,342,203,882,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-international-olympic-committee","category-japan","category-olympic-games","category-sport","category-tokyo-olympic-games-2020","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\/32782","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=32782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32783,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32782\/revisions\/32783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}