With a year to go, support slides for pandemic-hit Tokyo Olympics

A demonstrator wearing a face mask holds a sign to protest against the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games a year before the start of the summer games that have been postponed to 2021 due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, near National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan July 24, 2020. REUTERS/Issei Kato

TOKYO (Reuters) - Several dozen protesters in masks gathered in front of Japan's National Stadium on Friday, the day the Olympic Games should have begun, to protest against holding them next year given the danger of the novel coronavirus.

The Games were postponed in March as the coronavirus swept the world and the government is determined that they go ahead next year.