Japan Continues to Prepare for Olympics, PM Says

Japan Continues to Prepare for Olympics, PM Says
Pedestrians walk past a monitor showing a live broadcast of a press conference by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on COVID-19 in Osaka, Japan, on March 14, 2020. Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images
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Japan continues to prepare to host the Olympic Games in Tokyo this summer, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on March 14, despite widening concern about the viability of the Games given the global coronavirus outbreak.

Abe also told a news conference that he had not discussed a possible delay or cancellation of the Games, which are due to start in July, in a recent telephone call with U.S. President Donald Trump.