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Opinion

History will not be kind to Tokyo's 'zombie Olympics'

It is time for a serious intervention

| Japan
The national government's lackadaisical COVID-19 response is colliding with the Tokyo Games.   © AP

William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."

Japan Inc. invented the modern zombie company. Does Tokyo really want to add a "zombie Olympics" to the lexicon, too?

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