With less than two months left until the start of the Tokyo Olympic Games, Japan¡¯s Asahi Breweries still doesn¡¯t know whether fans will be allowed into stadiums to buy its beer.
Japan has scaled back its Olympic plans amid the COVID-19 pandemic and a slow vaccine roll-out. Now, foreign spectators won¡¯t be allowed in the country and organizers have yet to decide how many domestic spectators, if any, can attend.
More than 60 Japanese companies together paid a record of more than $3 billion to sponsor the Tokyo Games, an event most Japanese now want canceled or delayed again. Sponsors paid another $200 million to extend contracts after the games were delayed last year.
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