Japan is still largely unvaccinated, with just an estimated 2% having at least one shot of the vaccine.
The country also has a Level 4, Do Not Travel advisory from the US. Japan cases peaked in January 2021 but now it has reached another peak with a new single-month record of new cases. Japan leaders, medical experts and majority of the population does not want the Olympics to happen but IOC seems unfazed by the resistance of the Japanese people to the Olympics
" .........John Coates, the IOC vice president in charge of the Tokyo Olympics, said last week the Games would open even if Tokyo and other parts of Japan were under a state of emergency because of Covid-19. Coates said the Games would go on even if Japan’s local medical experts advised against holding the Olympics.
“The advice we have from the (World Health Organization) and all other scientific and medical advice that we have, is that — all the measures we have outlined, all of those measures that we are undertaking, are satisfactory and will ensure a safe and secure Games in terms of health,” Coates said. “And that’s the case whether there is a state of emergency or not.” ............."
WHAT?!! So they say, its going to happen because WHO and other medical experts who are not from Japan said so, despite Japan's own medical experts and population being against it!!!?