As the government continues to explore ways to host the Summer Olympics amidst the pandemic, the Yokohama BayStars baseball team will take part in an "experiment" to make available 80% of its seats for its home games from Oct 30-Nov 1.
The trial conducted by the local government, NEC and LINE will monitor fan movement and collect data from the 27,000+spectators that could attend on each of the three days.
As precautions against the virus, Japanese sport teams are only selling a max of 50% of stadium capacity.
A crowd of 20,904 showed up at the Oct 4 game in the Hanshin Koshien Stadium, the largest attendance so far for a sporting event held since the outbreak.