By DAIKI KOGA/ Staff Writer
March 22, 2021 at 19:16 JST
Yoshiro Mori, left, then president of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee, and Daichi Suzuki, the former commissioner of the government's Japan Sports Agency, in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, in March 2020 (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
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