Japanese Business Leaders Add to Chorus Against Holding Olympics

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Opposition to the Tokyo Olympics has deepened in Japan and spread to some prominent business: SoftBank's CEO painted a scenario in which arriving athletes and officials triggered a new wave of infections

TOKYO—Opposition to the Tokyo Olympics opening in two months has deepened in Japan and spread to some prominent business leaders despite organizers highlighting recent warm-up events as evidence that the Games can safely go ahead.

On Sunday, Masayoshi Son, the chief executive of technology investment company SoftBank Group Corp. , painted a scenario in which arriving athletes and officials triggered a new wave of infections with virus variants, leading to deaths, more emergency shutdowns and furtherCanceling the Games might bring financial losses, but by holding them, Mr. Son wrote on Twitter, “I think we’re going to lose something much bigger.”in a recent interviewOlympic organizers say the event won’t be canceled.

 

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