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FILE - In this April 25, 2016, file photo, Tokyo 2020 Emblems Selection Committee Chairperson Ryohei Miyata, right, and its member and Japanese baseball great Sadaharu Oh hold new official logos of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, left, and the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games during the unveiling ceremony in Tokyo. The cost of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics is nearly twice the initial estimate despite a major cost-cutting effort. A major reason is that cities exclude large amounts of associated costs when they bid to host the Olympics. Tokyo Olympic organizers announced this week that the estimated cost is now 1.4 trillion yen ($12.6 billion). The bid estimate was 730 billion yen ($6.6 billion). (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)
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A postman rides a bike past the construction site of the athlete's village for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics in Harumi in Tokyo, Friday, June 2, 2017. The cost of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics is nearly twice the initial estimate despite a major cost-cutting effort. A major reason is that cities exclude large amounts of associated costs when they bid to host the Olympics. Tokyo Olympic organizers announced this week that the estimated cost is now 1.4 trillion yen ($12.6 billion). The bid estimate was 730 billion yen ($6.6 billion). (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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Japan's helicopter carrier JS Izumo, top, escorts a U.S. supply ship in the waters off Kozu Island, southwest of Tokyo, in the Pacific Ocean Monday, May 1, 2017. Japan's navy has dispatched its largest destroyer reportedly tasked with escorting U.S. military ships off the Japanese coast, a first-time mission under new security legislation that allows Japan’s military a greater role overseas, amid heightened tension on the Korean Peninsula. The Izumo, that left Yokosuka port Monday morning, started to escort the U.S. supply ship after the two vessels met up in the waters off the Boso Peninsula, south of Tokyo, later in the day. (Ren Onuma/Kyodo News via AP)
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U.S. Navy and Japanese ships are searching the Sea of Japan for clues to the makeup of the Hwasong-15 intercontinental-range missile launched Wednesday by North Korea. (Associated Press/File)
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Tokyo 2020 Olympics CEO Toshiro Muto, right, and President and CEO of the 2019 Rugby World Cup Organizing Committee President and CEO Akira Shimazu show documents signed a collaborative agreement in Tokyo, Wednesday, April 26, 2017. Organizers of the 2020 Olympics signed a collaborative agreement with the organizers of the 2019 Rugby World Cup, aiming to maximize the benefits and impact of the global events. The Rugby World Cup will be staged in Japan as Tokyo is finalizing preparations to host the Summer Games for the first time since 1964. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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In this Thursday, April 20, 2017 photo, Andrew Baker, Games Director of the Canadian Olympic Committee, speaks at Odaiba Seaside Park, the venue of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, during an interview with The Associated Press in Tokyo. With just over three years to go, National Olympic Committees are already visiting Tokyo to survey the city's Olympic plans and ensure their athletes will compete under the best possible conditions at the 2020 Games. "There is a high level of confidence in what Tokyo 2020 will deliver," said Baker. "You expect a high level of organization and I would say from what we've seen with the planning so far they are living up to that reputation." (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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In this Thursday, April 20, 2017 photo, Andrew Baker, Games Director of the Canadian Olympic Committee, looks at Odaiba Seaside Park, the venue of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, during an interview with The Associated Press in Tokyo. With just over three years to go, National Olympic Committees are already visiting Tokyo to survey the city's Olympic plans and ensure their athletes will compete under the best possible conditions at the 2020 Games. "There is a high level of confidence in what Tokyo 2020 will deliver," said Baker. "You expect a high level of organization and I would say from what we've seen with the planning so far they are living up to that reputation." (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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Gold tablets of 3 grams, left, which is able to be recycled from 100 mobile phones, are shown as example in Tokyo, Saturday, April 1, 2017. Organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics began Saturday collecting discarded electronic devices that will be used in the production of the medals to be awarded to athletes. The organizing committee aims to collect eight tons of raw metal which will yield around two tons of pure metal, enough to produce 5,000 medals for the Tokyo Games. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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A store clerk scraps an old mobile phone of an owner, right, who brought it to a shop of NTT Docomo, Japan's mobile phone operator, in Tokyo, Saturday, April 1, 2017. Organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics began Saturday collecting discarded electronic devices that will be used in the production of the medals to be awarded to athletes. The organizing committee aims to collect eight tons of raw metal which will yield around two tons of pure metal, enough to produce 5,000 medals for the Tokyo Games. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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A store clerk scraps an old mobile phone watched by Japanese Olympic swimmer Takeshi Matsuda, right, and Paralympian Takuro Yamada at a shop of NTT Docomo, Japan's mobile phone operator, in Tokyo, Saturday, April 1, 2017. Organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics began Saturday collecting discarded electronic devices that will be used in the production of the medals to be awarded to athletes. The organizing committee aims to collect eight tons of raw metal which will yield around two tons of pure metal, enough to produce 5,000 medals for the Tokyo Games. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, second left, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, left, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, second right, and Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada stand together as they pose for photographers at the start of the two-plus-two meeting in Tokyo Monday, March 20, 2017. The foreign and defense ministers from Japan and Russia met in Tokyo on Monday, with both sides expressing hope that discussions on joint development of islands claimed by both countries might help them move closer to resolving the territorial dispute preventing them from forging a peace treaty. (David Mareuil/Pool Photo via AP)
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, second left, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, left, put hands together with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, second right, and Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada during the two-plus-two meeting in Tokyo Monday, March 20, 2017. The foreign and defense ministers from Japan and Russia met in Tokyo on Monday, with both sides expressing hope that discussions on joint development of islands claimed by both countries might help them move closer to resolving the territorial dispute preventing them from forging a peace treaty. (David Mareuil/Pool Photo via AP)
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, fifth from left, and talks with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, fourth from right, during their meeting as a part of Japan-Russia foreign and defense ministers meeting at Iikura guest house in Tokyo, Japan Monday, March 20, 2017. The foreign and defense ministers from Japan and Russia are meeting in Tokyo for the first "two-plus-two" talks since Russia's annexation of Ukraine. (Issei Kato/Pool Photo via AP)
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, left, shakes hands with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida at the start of their meeting as a part of Japan-Russia foreign and defence ministers meeting at Iikura guest house in Tokyo, Japan Monday, March 20, 2017. The foreign and defense ministers from Japan and Russia are meeting in Tokyo for the first "two-plus-two" talks since Russia's annexation of Ukraine. (Issei Kato/Pool Photo via AP)
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, left, talks with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida at the start of their meeting as a part of Japan-Russia foreign and defence ministers meeting at Iikura guest house in Tokyo, Japan Monday, March 20, 2017. The foreign and defense ministers from Japan and Russia are meeting in Tokyo for the first "two-plus-two" talks since Russia's annexation of Ukraine. (Issei Kato/Pool Photo via AP)
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, right, and Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida, left, walk together to their bilateral meeting at the Foreign Ministry's Iikura Guesthouse in Tokyo, Thursday, March 16, 2017. Tillerson is in Tokyo for the first leg of the trip to Asia, which is occurring amid escalating tensions with North Korea.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, left, and Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida, right, shake hands prior to their bilateral meeting at the Foreign Ministry's Iikura Guesthouse in Tokyo, Thursday, March 16, 2017. Tillerson is in Tokyo for the first leg of the trip to Asia, which is occurring amid escalating tensions with North Korea.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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Participants march to mark the International Women's Day in Tokyo, Wednesday, March 8, 2017. In Tokyo, some 200 women gathered for a march, protesting against wage disparities, sexual harassment and other challenges that they say still face.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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Participants march to mark the International Women's Day in Tokyo, Wednesday, March 8, 2017. In Tokyo, some 200 women gathered for a march, protesting against wage disparities, sexual harassment and other challenges that they say still face. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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People buy copies of the new book written by Haruki Murakami at a book store in Tokyo shortly after midnight, Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. Murakami's new book "Kishidancho Goroshi," or "Killing Commendatore," is a two-part story about a 36-year-old portrait painter and the mysterious incidents that happen after his wife divorces him and he moves into an old house on a mountainside west of Tokyo. (Fumine Tsutabayashi/Kyodo News via AP)
