we'll talk about this with jeff kingston now in tokyo. he is the director of ation studies at temple university, japan just as anyone want these games to go ahead the government seems determined. so damn the torpedoes full speed ahead and the people are scratching their hands. why? only 14 percent of japanese favor host in the games that about 80 percent want them postpone her cancelled. we have a who's who of c o. speaking out against the games, one of them call them a suicide mission and all public council experts believe that this is recklessly endangering the health of the japanese people. so yes, there are good reasons why people wonder why prime minister suga seems so determined to go ahead. tell me about until i view, as indeed about, aside from the newspaper, how much influences at home. oh, it's huge. it's like the new york times of japan or the guardian, you know, is highly respected generally on the liberal side of the spectrum. but the saw, he has a stake it all this and they just called out the authorities and said it doesn't

here's some thoughts from jeff kingston, director of asian studies at temple university in japan. he says, despite all these growing calls, the cancellation, the government seemed determined to go ahead but the gains dan, the torpedoes full speed ahead and the people. busy are scratching their heads. why? only 14 percent of japanese favor host in the games that about 80 percent. want them postpone or canceled? we have a who's who of c o. speaking out against the games, one of them call them a suicide mission and all public council experts believe that this is recklessly endangering the health of the japanese people. so yes, there are good reasons why people wonder why prime minister suga seems so determined to go ahead. the vaccination campaign here, the roll. busy out has been a dribble, only a just over 2 percent of japanese have gotten fully vaccinated. suddenly they're going to be bringing in 628-0000 visitors from all over the world for the olympics . are good reasons, people believe this could potentially be a super spreader event. perhaps there is some misguided pride there

jeff kingston is director of asian studies at temple university, japan. he says, despite the growing calls for cancellation, the government seems determined to go ahead with the games dan, the torpedoes full speed ahead and the people. busy are scratching their heads. why only 14 percent of japanese favor who's in the game said about 80 percent. want them postponed or canceled. we have a who's who of c e o. speaking out against the games. one of them all them a suicide mission and all public council experts believe that this is recklessly endangering the health of the japanese people. so yes, there are good reasons why people wonder why prime minister suga seems so determined to go ahead. the vaccination campaign here, the roll. busy out has been a dribble, only a, just over 2 percent of japanese have gotten fully vaccinated. suddenly they're going to be bringing in 628-0000 visitors from all over the world for the olympics . you know, are good reasons. people believe this could potentially be a super spreader event. perhaps there is some misguided pride