FOCUS: Curtain falls on Tokyo Games, but real test yet to come for Japan

With a tinge of autumn in the air, the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, held over the course of more than a month in the face of extraordinary challenges posed by the coronavirus, have come to an end. For Japan, however, its real test may yet be to come.That is the assessment of Shunya Yoshimi, a prominent Japanese sociologist, who summed up the Summer Games, staged despite widespread skepticism, as a failure for Japan, saying they had exposed the host country's problems in many ways."The Olympics didn't go well, but not necessarily because of the coronavirus," the University of Tokyo profes…READ FULL ARTICLE