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The Summer Olympics will have much less international flair than usual this year.
The Tokyo Games are expected to commence on July 23, as expected, but Japan is blocking overseas fans from attending events, reported the Kyodo News agency on Tuesday.
“In the current situation it is impossible to bring in foreign spectators,” an unnamed official told the Japanese newspaper Mainichi last week.
The prohibition of non-Japanese spectators had been the likely conclusion for months as the virulent Covid-19 pandemic has infected more than 117 million people worldwide.
Overseas fans face ‘great deal of trouble’ should they be allowed into Japan
Olympic competitors are expected to reside in a bubble village near Tokyo Bay and remain there until their departure, and organising committee president Seiko Hashimoto said a decision on venue capacity will be reached by the end of April, noted The Associated Press.
“We need to look at the overall situation before we decide on any percentage rates,” Hashimoto said. “We believe we will not be accepted unless the citizens feel confident that sufficient countermeasures are taken.”


Japan has done a relatively formidable job in limiting Covid-19 cases nationwide. As of Tuesday, the country has reported 8,358 fatalities, according to health tracker Johns Hopkins University.
The US, with a population roughly 2.5 times greater than Japan, has a death rate 60 times larger than the Asian nation of 125 million inhabitants.
Covid-19 and fake news make this toughest Olympics yet
America still tops all countries worldwide in coronavirus deaths at more than 525,000. Approximately one in every five people on Earth who has succumbed to the highly infectious disease has been an American.


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Tokyo Olympic Games will go ahead in July but without foreign spectators, say reports

Reports suggest foreign spectators will be prohibited from attending the Tokyo Olympics. Photo: AFP

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games: overseas fans face ‘great deal of trouble’ should they be allowed into Japan

Seiko Hashimoto, President of the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee, speaks at a media briefing in Tokyo, Japan in March. Photo: Reuters

FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a protective face mask walks past in front of a display showing the logo of Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games that have been postponed to 2021 due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Tokyo, Japan January 23, 2021. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo

A man and a woman look at the Olympic rings installed off the Odaiba Marine Park on Wednesday, March 3, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

epa09048274 Thomas Bach (on screen), president of IOC, speaks via teleconference during the five-party meeting at the Tokyo 2020 headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, 03 March 2021. The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) held a five-party meeting on 03 March 2021 with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Government of Japan, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). EPA-EFE/Du Xiaoyi / POOL

Japan's Olympic Minister Seiko Hashimoto speaks to journalists at the Central Government Building in Tokyo on February 12, 2021. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

Seiko Hashimoto, second right, president of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020), appears before reporters as Toshiro Muto, CEO of Tokyo 2020, stands by her after a five-party meeting at the Tokyo 2020 headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. (Du Xiaoyi/Pool Photo via AP)

Tokyo 2020: More than half of Japanese firms want the Olympics cancelled or postponed, survey says

Olympic rings float on the water in the Odaiba section in Tokyo. Photo: AP

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2020, file photo, the Olympic Symbol is reinstalled after it was taken down for maintenance ahead of the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics in the Odaiba section, in Tokyo. The official cost of the postponed Tokyo Olympics has increased by 22%, the local organizing committee said Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, in unveiling its new budget. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

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Japanese media says the Games will go ahead as planned but there will be capacity limits in place at venues



Japanese media says the Games will go ahead as planned but there will be capacity limits in place at venues.


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Tokyo Olympic Games will go ahead in July but without foreign spectators, say reports

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Japanese media says the Games will go ahead as planned but there will be capacity limits in place at venues