If the pandemic is mishandled, even next year may prove too early to reschedule
annals of the new coronavirus are written, a chapter will surely be devoted to the dogged insistence by Japan’s prime minister, Abe Shinzo, that despite a galloping global pandemic the Tokyo Olympic Games would go ahead as planned in July. Mr Abe—the most assertive prime minister since his beloved grandfather, Kishi Nobusuke, who secured the 1964 Olympics for Tokyo—is not used to being gainsaid. But on March 24th he at last conceded, declaring that the games would be postponed by a year.
Pressed into national service by Dentsu, Japan’s advertising giant, big firms including Bridgestone, Canon, Nomura, Toto and Toyota provided a record $3.1bn to sponsor the games. Even before the postponement, executives wondered what the outlay of as much as $100m a firm would get them. The answer will have to wait a year.
Japan has to date been a virus outlier: the epidemic has proceeded more slowly than in other big economies. It had its first infection in mid-January, two weeks before Italy. Since then Italy has recorded more than 74,000 cases and 7,500 deaths. In Japan just over 1,300 have been reported as infected and only 45 have died.and bird flu, about the importance of containment: pains are taken to identify infection clusters and then to track down transmission routes, says Shindo Nahoko of the.
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