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TOKYO: The countdown clock for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is displayed with 50 days before the opening ceremony outside a Tokyo station yesterday. - AFP n

Tokyo 2020 chief says Games '100%' on, with 50 days to go
TOKYO: Buildings are seen at dusk as a shinkansen, or high-speed bullet train, passes by in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPn

Japan extends virus emergency until month before Olympics
TOKYO: Toshiro Muto, chief executive officer of the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee (left), President of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic games Seiko Hashimoto (center) and Canon CEO and honorary chairman Fujio Mitarai (right) attend a Tokyo 2020 executive board meeting in Tokyo yesterday. – AFPnn

Japan newspaper sponsoring Olympics joins cancellation chorus
TOKYO: People take part in a protest against the hosting of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPn

Over 80 percent in Japan oppose Olympics this year
TOKYO: Kaede Maegawa of Japan competes in the women's long jump - T63 category during a para-athletics test event for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics at the National Stadium in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPn

Japan's Osaka 'not sure' Olympics should happen as doubts grow
TOKYO: International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach (on screen) speaks as Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee president Seiko Hashimoto listens during a five-party meeting of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPn

Tokyo 2020 organizers delay decision on local spectators until June
TOKYO: A man sits on a rock in front of the Olympic rings at the Odaiba waterfront in Tokyo on Monday. – AFPn

How the first Tokyo Olympics changed the face of Japan
TOCHIGI: This handout photograph taken and released on March 28, 2021 by Tokyo 2020 shows a Japanese torchbearer carrying the Olympic torch on a boat during the torch relay in the eastern city of Tochigi. - AFPn

Olympic torch relay barred from public roads across Japan's Osaka
NARAHA, Japan: Tokyo 2020 president Seiko Hashimoto (left) applauds as a member of Japan's women's national football team carries the Olympic torch on day one of the torch relay in Fukushima Prefecture yesterday. - AFP n

'Ray of light': Olympic torch relay begins after year's delay
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