By SHUHEI NOMURA/ Staff Writer
August 29, 2020 at 17:20 JST
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, at a ceremony in July 2019 in Tokyo. Seated at the far left is Yoshiro Mori, president of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
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