Restart of A New World
2020 was expected to deliver a glorious Summer Olympics. “Advertisements everywhere and changing numbers on countdown boards in Tokyo reminded people the event was coming,” Li Yifan, a Chinese working in Tokyo, told Beijing Review.
But the escalating novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has forced the delay of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Summer Games. The event was originally scheduled to run from July 24 through August 9 this year.
For Li, the chance is lost for him to witness the sporting spectacle—he will be moving back to China after living in Japan for over four years.
“It was sad to see the countdown outside my workplace stop
