五輪祝日移動法案を閣議決定　長崎原爆の日を振り替え休日に

　政府は２９日の閣議で、来年夏に延期された東京五輪の開・閉会式に合わせて祝日を移動する五輪・パラリンピック特別措置法改正案を決定した。海の日を五輪開会式前日の７月２２日、スポーツの日を開会日の同２３日、山の日を五輪閉会日の８月８日とする内容。
　祝日の移動は会場周辺の混雑緩和などが目的。政府の当初案は閉会式翌日の８月９日に山の日を移すことにしていたが、自民党から同日は長崎原爆忌で祝日にそぐわないとの異論が出されて修正した。８月８日は日曜日のため、翌９日は振り替え休日となる。（2020/05/29-08:52）

The Japanese government adopted on Friday a draft revision to the law on special measures for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, in order to move holidays to around the opening and closing ceremonies of the Tokyo Games, postponed to next summer.
   Next year's Marine Day will be moved to July 22, the day before the opening ceremony, Sports Day to July 23, the day of the ceremony, and Mountain Day to Aug. 8, the day of the closing ceremony.
   The measure is for reasons such as easing traffic congestion around competition venues.
   The government initially planned to move Mountain Day to Aug. 9, the day after the closing ceremony, but it modified the plan due to opposition that the day is a memorial day for the U.S. atomic bombing in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, in 1945 in the closing days of World War II and it should not be a holiday.
   Aug. 8 will be Sunday next year, so Aug. 9 will be a substitute holiday.