Lawyer Kenji Utsunomiya shows off placards during a news conference after he and anti-Olympics petition organizer to submit a petition calling for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics to be cancelled to Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike (not in picture) at the Tokyo Metropolitan Office press club in Tokyo, Japan May 14, 2021. REUTERS/Naoki Ogura
TOKYO (Reuters) -Critics of Japan's plan to hold the Tokyo Olympics despite a fourth wave of coronavirus infections submitted a petition on Friday signed by 350,000 people over nine days calling for the Games to be cancelled.
"Stop Tokyo Olympics" campaign organiser Kenji Utsunomiya said the global festival of sport - already postponed from 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic - should take place only when Japan can welcome visitors and athletes wholeheartedly.
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