THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
February 12, 2021 at 18:35 JST
From left, Tsunekazu Takeda, the president of the Japan Olympic Committee, Tokyo Governor Naoki Inose, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Yoshiro Mori, a former prime minister, at an August 2013 ceremony for the committee seeking to bring the 2020 Olympics to Tokyo. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
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