Tokyo Oympics:15 world leaders to attend opening ceremony

The much awaited Tokyo Olympics is going to start on Friday,July 23.  As per information world leaders from 15 countries are likely to atted the opening ceremony at the National Stadium in Tokyo .Number of attendies , this time, has been kept low, in view of the organisers' efforts to control the raging Covid-19 pandemi. Around one thousand, including VIPs , likely to attend the opening ceremony.  According to Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japanese government Katsunobu Kato  around 70 cabinet-level officials are also set to visit Japan, adding that there is still uncertainty over the number of VIPs attending the opening ceremony.

French President Emmanuel Macron and Mongolian Prime Minister Luvsannamsrai Oyun-Erdene are among the world leaders who have announced their attendance, as has U.S. first lady Jill Biden. A senior Foreign Ministry official has said the recent global rage of coronavirus variants has led many leaders to cancel their Japan visits. Kato said the leaders' visits will provide Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga with a "valuable opportunity to build up personal relationships" at a time when face-to-face diplomacy is being constrained by the pandemic. Most of the Tokyo Olympics including the opening ceremony will be held without spectators from the general public as the capital remains under a COVID-19 state of emergency. The delayed Tokyo Olympics will be held under a state of emergency sans spectators due to the global pandemic.