TOKYO -- Toshihiro Nikai, the secretary-general of Japan's ruling party, on Thursday said canceling the Tokyo Olympics could be an option if the coronavirus spreads further, though a senior government official later told Nikkei that "it is impossible to cancel the Olympics."
Nikai, the No. 2 leader of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's Liberal Democratic Party, made the hypothetical remark while recording a TV program at TBS.
