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Olympic Games in Japan: Resistance is growing


A fourth wave of corona infections endangers the implementation of the major event. Leading politicians are coming under heavy pressure for elections to be held soon.

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is under increasing pressure.

Yuichi Yamazaki / AP

The lawyer Kenji Utsunomiya landed a political coup with possibly global consequences shortly before the Tokyo city parliament elections in early July. The former candidate for the current mayor Yuriko Koike wants to prevent the Olympic Games from being held because of the corona pandemic with a signature campaign.

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