Japan's 'post-Olympics' curse looms large for embattled Suga

Prime ministers have stepped down each time Japan hosted Games

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Can Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga escape a post-Olympics curse that has felled past three prime ministers?(Source photos by Uichiro Kasai and Reuters) 

KANAME UMENO, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- With the coronavirus's delta variant ripping through the capital amid the Tokyo Olympics, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's political prospects look increasingly precarious.

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