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Toyota Withdraws Olympics Advertising In Japan; Execs Won’t Attend Opening Ceremony For Wildly Unpopular Games

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The bad news just keeps coming for the Tokyo Olympics organizers and the International Olympic committee. Athletes are testing positive for Covid-19.

Daily new Covid cases in the country have doubled in under a month. Polls have found that the vast majority of Japanese citizens don’t want the games to happen right now.

Even Emperor Naruhito said he was “extremely worried” that the Olympics could accelerate the spread of the virus. And now, arguably the country’s best-known company, Toyota Motor, has said it won’t be airing any commercials in Japan related to the Tokyo Olympics amid the public disdain for the Games.

The auto makers’ president and other executive won’t attend the opening ceremony, either.The daily Yomiuri reported the news on

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