Govt losing trust with frailties of its approach exposed

Behind the disquiet over the Olympic Games is a government fast losing the trust of the public, effectively since the Covid-19 pandemic began.

The first signs of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's indecisiveness came late last year, when it took weeks of wrangling for him to pull the plug on his brainchild, the Go To Travel domestic tourism campaign, while infections were raging.