Nippon Professional Baseball and the J. League plan to submit a request to the government to relax limits on attendance at large events, with the spread of COVID-19 appearing to be slowing down within the nation, the two leagues announced Monday.
"We have heard the view of our medical panel that the infection rate has settled down nationwide,” said NPB Commissioner Atsushi Saito in an online news conference after the 15th meeting of the leagues’ joint task force.
“Right now, we are allowing up to 5,000 fans into stadiums, but we would like to think about the next steps,” he continued. “We’ve agreed with (J. League) Chairman (Mitsuru) Murai that we will present our request, to relax the limit, to the government as soon as tomorrow.”