(AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)Polling in Japan additionally exhibits a large majority of people want the Games to be known as off. Most of the opposition appears to stem from the spiraling costs — no much less than $15 billion of principally taxpayer money, although some estimates recommend it might be greater. Not since the 2004 Olympic Summer Games had been in Athens, Greece — with preparations nonetheless occurring seemingly until the start of the Opening Ceremony — has the International Olympic Committee endured as tough a run-up to their occasion as for the upcoming Games in Tokyo.