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Opinion

Opposing the Olympics has helped the Japanese people find their voice

Complications aside, public opinion is winning against a government slow to listen

Nancy Snow
| Japan
IOC president Thomas Bach, on a screen, and Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee president Seiko Hashimoto wave to each other on April 28: too much political pandering and happy talk about holding the Summer Olympics is infantilizing to a public.   © Reuters

Dr. Nancy Snow is Pax Mundi (World Peace) Professor of Public Diplomacy at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies.

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