As the epidemic situation continued to escalate, the Japanese government began to issue an emergency declaration to Tokyo, announcing that from July 12, Japan would enter a state of emergency prevention and control until August 22. At the same time, there is another big thing in Japan at this time, that is, the Tokyo Olympic Games, which have been postponed for one year, will soon begin, and the emergence of this emergency situation is undoubtedly worse for Japan.
Just when everyone was worried about how the Tokyo Olympic Games should be held under the epidemic and whether they could be held, Japan has made one after another wordsless moves, causing strong dissatisfaction in the international community.
What exactly has Japan done? How are you preparing for the Tokyo Olympics in the face of Japan's pandemic?
As early as 1964, Japan successfully hosted an Olympic Games that deepened Japan's international status and stimulated Japan's economic development. It should be known that the Olympic Games is an international event, and the organizers can not only promote the economic development of their own countries and increase fiscal revenue, but also highlight the strength of the country and publicize the international image. Therefore, in 2011, Japan strongly recommended itself to host the 2020 Olympic Games.
Although the outbreak of the epidemic is somewhat difficult for Japan to host the Olympic Games, Japan does not want to give up, and Japanese officials have said that Japan will hold the Tokyo Olympics as scheduled in 2021. At the same time, Japan also claims to have prepared for the protection of athletes from all over the world and Olympic visitors, however, in the next second, the Japanese government was punched in the face and faced with international doubts.
Athletes from all over the world have prepared for the Tokyo Olympics, and now only the pre-match arrangements in Japan are left. The Chinese sailing and windsurfing team also began to go to Japan, after coming to Japan, Japan did not arrange for them to enter the Olympic Village, but on the grounds that the distance between the sailing and windsurfing hall and the Olympic Village was farther, in order to be more convenient, arranged for Chinese windsurfing athletes to stay near the stadium, which was no problem.
But soon, the athletes found that there was a big problem with the epidemic prevention and control here, and the hotels they stayed in allowed to accept other foreign travelers. Not only that, due to the lack of strict management of the closed area of the accommodation area, Chinese athletes have now become mixed with tourists. In this case, the probability of the spread of the new crown virus will be greatly increased, which is very unfair and irresponsible for Chinese athletes.
In addition, Japan's "elevator discrimination" has also attracted international questions. In order to avoid contact between the Japanese people and people from abroad, there are also obvious "Japanese only" notices in some hotels in Japan. This caused public anger, and under everyone's reprimand, the Japanese hotel explained: It is to protect the safety of the personnel involved in the Olympic Games, but this kind of statement, cheating children can be, this naked discrimination meaning, who will not understand it?
India's Olympic Committee President also issued a statement saying that Japan has treated India differently in epidemic prevention and discrimination is obvious. The Indian delegation was asked not to have contact with other people for 3 days after arriving in Japan, except for the daily COVID-19 test 7 days before departure, and Indian athletes were only allowed to enter the Olympic Village 5 days before the game. Among them, there were 3 days when Indian athletes ate, rested, and their physical condition was not guaranteed, which made the Indian side extremely dissatisfied.
In fact, just in February, Tokyo 2020, Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee President Yoshiro Mori had made discriminatory remarks against women. He expressed his views on the hiring of women directors among interim assessors: he believed that women were a waste of time to speak at meetings and that it would be difficult for meetings to end without controlling their presentations. This caused great calls on social media, demanding Yoshiro Mori's resignation, and the Japanese people also believed that Yoshiro Mori had lost the face of his countrymen. Under the fermentation of this incident, Japan's torchbearer Jun Tamura also said that he could not accept Mori Yoshiro's views and decided not to serve as a torchbearer.
However, a wave of uneven waves, in March, the Tokyo Olympic Games again another wave of discrimination, the Olympic opening ceremony director let the funny artist female artist dress up as a pig, the Japanese pronunciation similar to the "pig in the pig pen" and "Olympic" harmonic terrier performance dominated the hot search list, triggered a public opinion storm, under the condemnation of the public, the parties apologized to the female artist Naomi Watanabe, and resigned the position of director of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
While facing international doubts, the internal situation of the Tokyo Olympic Games in Japan is also a disaster.
Originally, Japan's successful application for the Olympic Games was a matter of national celebration, who could have imagined that the new crown virus would be killed halfway in 2020. Japan had to postpone the Olympic Games originally scheduled for 2020 to 2021, not knowing whether it was providence or Japan's own problem, and the epidemic prevention model, which had maintained a good style, suddenly came to a rebound. It was also when the Tokyo Olympics were about to begin.
In the face of growing numbers, the mood of the Japanese people began to be unstable, so they protested one after another, calling for the Japanese government to cancel the Tokyo Olympic Games. The domestic public has not yet calmed down, and the torchbearers of the Olympic Games have begun to strike again, including actor Teruyuki Kagawa, singer Hiroshi Goki, Masayoshi Abe and other celebrities from all walks of life have asked the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee to resign as torchbearers. Among them, the famous Japanese athlete Kawasumi Nasumi and the Japanese marathon star Daisuke Kita also gave up the torch relay on the grounds that they were worried about the virus infection and the inconvenience of the trip.
In addition, the volunteers for the Tokyo Olympics are also facing the problem of insufficient manpower, and nearly 600 people in Miyagi Prefecture are reluctant to risk the virus to volunteer for the Olympic Games. Elsewhere, volunteer withdrawals are also highly likely, forcing the Tokyo Organising Committee to make a voluntary readjustment, possibly with the possibility that one volunteer will do two people's work.
Now that many emergencies have left Japan in a state of flux, it is unclear whether the COVID-19 pandemic will be under stable control during the Olympic Games. So why, then, is it that Japan has to continue to host the Olympic Games on such a bumpy road and so risky?
First, Japan cannot afford this loss. For this Olympic Games, Japan has worked hard to build venues, catering, transportation, apartments and other facilities. At the end of 2020, the budget for the Tokyo Olympics was assessed at $15.4 billion. If Japan cancels the Olympic Games, Japan will face huge sponsor compensation costs, and the IOC's $1.3 billion donation will have to be returned to others unchanged. This is a huge debt for Japan, not to mention, now due to the epidemic, the development of the Japanese economy is also in a state of decline. Therefore, considering the current situation, only by continuing to host the Olympic Games can the losses be reduced to less.
Second, the grand benefits of the Olympic Games: The influence of the Olympic Games in the world is beyond doubt, otherwise there would not be so many countries rushing to become the organizers of the Olympic Games. This sports event is international, the eyes of the world will gather here, so the organizers can take this opportunity to vigorously promote their own culture, show their advantages, attract investment from people from all walks of life, and increase their economic income.
Now that Japan is entering an aging era and its economic development has begun to slow down, Japan urgently needs an opportunity to solve its current development situation. According to relevant reports, Japan will show high-tech technologies such as driverless, fully autonomous driving system, face recognition, green environmental protection air conditioning, and voice translation at the Tokyo Olympic Games, showing its scientific and technological strength, of which Panasonic's wheelchair robot has attracted the most international attention.
Although Japan said that it would hold the Tokyo Olympic Games as scheduled, under the impact of the epidemic, it was impossible to achieve the grand situation of hosting the Olympic Games in the past, and huge losses must be inevitable.
At present, Japan has announced that some venues will be held empty. This means that there are many events without spectators, so the tickets to the Olympic Games are equivalent to waste. But before that, japan had already sold tickets, so it wasn't as simple as we were to refund tickets. Japan will face a large amount of compensation costs, and Japan will have a loss of 150 billion yen just by refunding the ticket.
In addition, the empty venue brings not only the loss of tickets so simple, because the Olympic venues do not have spectators, then the surrounding goods will not be able to sell, the demand for the catering industry will also be greatly reduced, and the publicity effect of some companies cannot be achieved, if the overall calculation of all empty venues is calculated, Japan's loss will reach 2.4 trillion yen. Due to the vacancy, some sponsors believe that the sponsorship value of the Olympic Games is not large, and are opting out or reducing their sponsorship of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Whether the Tokyo Olympics are held as scheduled or cancelled due to the pandemic, this is a dilemma for Japan. At present, the pressure of international and Japanese public opinion is getting greater and greater, the new crown epidemic is not making good progress at present, and the huge Olympic losses postponed for one year cannot be saved, and everything is a headache for Japan. If the time could be turned back, I think Japan would certainly not be running for the host of this Olympic Games. But this can only be if, now Japan, no matter how difficult, no matter how painful, can only go hard to go on.