An outspoken economic adviser to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga stepped down on Monday after his recent online posts drew fire for downplaying the COVID-19 situation in Japan and ridiculing growing calls for the cancellation of this summer's Tokyo Olympics. Suga told reporters Yoichi Takahashi, a former Finance Ministry official who is now a professor, has apologized for his remarks and offered his resignation.On May 9, Takahashi tweeted, "Japan is a mere ripple" in the ocean, along with a graph showing the number of infections in Japan as much lower than other countries, including India an…READ FULL ARTICLE
