THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
August 25, 2021 at 07:30 JST
Fireworks explode during the opening ceremony for the 2020 Paralympics at the National Stadium in Tokyo on Aug. 24. (The Asahi Shimbun)
The Paralympics began Tuesday in the same empty National Stadium--during the same pandemic--as the opening and closing ceremonies of the recently completed Tokyo Olympics. [Read More]
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