By DAISUKE MAEDA/ Staff Writer
December 15, 2019 at 17:55 JST
Officials who attended the ceremony celebrating the completion of the new National Stadium. From left: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe; Seiko Hashimoto, minister of the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics; Kazuyoshi Akaba, land minister; Yuriko Koike, Tokyo governor; and Toshiaki Endo, vice president of the Tokyo organizing committee. (Toshiyuki Hayashi)
With just over seven months to go before the start of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, a ceremony on Dec. 15 at the new National Stadium offered a sneak preview of the main venue for the sports extravaganza. [Read More]
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