Rakuten CEO Mikitani says hosting Tokyo Games this summer 'too risky'

FILE PHOTO: The Representative Director of Japan Association of New Economy (JANE) and e-commerce operator Rakuten Inc's Chairman and CEO Hiroshi Mikitani speaks in front of the logo of JANE during a new year meeting of JANE in Tokyo January 22, 2015. REUTERS/Yuya Shino

TOKYO (Reuters) - Hiroshi Mikitani, chief executive of Japanese e-commerce group Rakuten Inc, said on Wednesday it was "too risky" to hold the 2020 Tokyo Olympics this summer, as the nation struggles with a nascent fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mikitani's remarks, posted to his Twitter account, come a day after 2020 organisers said they had decided to postpone a water polo test event, the latest setback to preparations for the Games which were postponed by a year due to the pandemic.