Petition Cancel the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics!

 

令和３年５月７日

村田光平

（元駐スイス大使）

 

皆様

 

東京五輪・パラリンピック中止を求める声が内外で広まっている中、去る５日、日弁連会長の宇都宮健児弁護士 は 五輪中止の署名集めを始め２日で１８万人の署名を集めたと報じられております。https://utsunomiyakenji.jp/stoptokyoolympic/

 

他方、オクスフォード仏教研究センター上級研究員のBrian Victoria博士は下記メッセージの通り生命を最重視する日本国民の意をくむ立場から、コロナ危機対策への全力投球を可能とするために五輪中止を求めるよう世界の良識に訴えております。

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内外の市民社会は東京五輪の中止は不可避と判断し、確信し、この期に及んでの五輪の迷走ぶりにあきれ果てております。

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Sent: Friday, May 7, 2021 2:25 PM

Subject: Petition Cancel the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics!

 

Dear Friends,

Dr. Brian Victoria, a senior research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies,

and one of my close collaborators, has launched the attached invaluable initiative

“ Cancel the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics!”

The confirmed collapse of medical system in Osaka on the brink of turning into a social collapse necessitates the immediate decision of the cancellation of the Tokyo Olympic Games in order to devote the maximum of efforts to cope with the worsening Corona Pandemic.

Please allow me to count on your understanding and support.

Mitsuhei Murata

Former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland

(Dr. Brian Victoria’s petition)

Cancel the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics!

Show your support by signing this petition now     Brian Victoria  

In light of the fact that Japan is currently in the midst of its third coronavirus state of emergency, with no end in sight, we support the desire of some 70-80% of the Japanese people, as expressed in multiple opinion polls, who have expressed their opposition to holding the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics. Holding the Olympic games in the midst of an ongoing pandemic will divert precious medical resources away from addressing the medical needs of coronavirus-infected patients, adding to the already unacceptable death toll. We appeal to people of good conscience throughout the world to demand the cancellation of the Olympic games under these circumstances.