Anxiety In Japan Rises As Olympic Games Near

The 2021 Tokyo Olympics are right around the corner, and anxiety is in the air. Naruhito, the Emperor of Japan, is “extremely worried” his country moving forward as host of the Summer Olympics will accelerate the spread of the coronavirus. Imperial Household Agency grand steward Yasuhiko Nishimura passed along Naruhito’s concerns amid calls for the Tokyo Games to get canceled or postponed before the July 23 opening ceremony, per Mari Yamaguchi of the Associated Press. “His majesty is extremely worried about the current situation of the COVID-19 infections,” Nishimura said last week. “While the...