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A worker prepares to set up a fence in Tokyo’s Yoyogi Park on June 1. (Nobuo Fujiwara)
After coming under heavy criticism, the Tokyo metropolitan government on June 1 scrapped plans to use Yoyogi Park for a public viewing event during the Olympics and instead will set up a mass vaccination center there.
The park in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward will be used to vaccinate employees of the Metropolitan Police Department and Fire Department starting on June 8.
The metropolitan government’s plan to set up public viewing event sites for the Games has drawn fire over concerns that such crowded venues could hasten the spread of novel coronavirus infections at a time most of the Japanese population has yet to be vaccinated.
Japanese farmers are turning to digital technologies to grow and sell their products as the coronavirus pandemic depresses sales to restaurants and the graying of Japan s population complicates the drive to raise productivity in the labor-intensive sector.