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FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2020, file photo, Greek singer Sakis Rouvas wears the uniform of the torch relay runners in Athens, Greece, as he holds the torch of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games during a presentation of the torch relay within in Greece. A governor in a western Japanese prefecture is talking about canceling the torch relay events in his area for the Tokyo Olympics, Kyodo News reported Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Rural governor talks of canceling local Olympic torch relay

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

A lamp is used during an outage following an earthquake in Ichikawa, Chiba prefecture, about 230 kilometers (143 miles) away from Fukushima Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. The Japan Meteorological Agency says a strong earthquake has hit off the coast of northeastern Japan, shaking Fukushima, Miyagi and other areas. (Keiko Hatto via AP)

Strong quake hits Japan’s northeast coast; no tsunami alert

By Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press

A demonstrator holds a placard protesting the planned Tokyo 2020 Olympic games near a building where Yoshiro Mori was meeting to announce his resignation as the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee in Tokyo on Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. Mori resigned Friday, following sexist comments implying women talk too much. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

EXPLAINER: Japan’s latest Olympic controversy

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Yoshiro Mori, center, the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, enters a venue for a news conference in Tokyo Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. (Kim Kyung-hoon/Pool Photo via AP)

Yoshiro Mori is gone, but gender issues remain for Tokyo Olympics

By Stephen Wade - Associated Press

Yoshiro Mori, the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. (Kim Kyung-hoon/Pool Photo via AP)

Reports: Mori to resign Tokyo Olympics over sexist remarks

By Stephen Wade - Associated Press

Christophe Dubi, Olympic Games Executive Director for the International Olympic Committee (IOC), joins other representatives from the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) at a Joint press briefing in Tokyo on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. Tokyo 2020, IOC and IPC announced Wednesday they jointly developed and published the first version of &quot;The Playbooks,&quot; which contains advice from international and Japanese health experts for COVID-19 countermeasures as well as the guidelines and rules that each games stakeholder will need to observe in order to play their part in ensuing a safe and secure games. (Du Xiaoyi/Pool Photo via AP)

Tokyo Games offer Playbooks to assure athletes, sway public

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games Organising Committee President Yoshiro Mori, center, delivers a speech at a beginning of a meeting on the preparation for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics at the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) headquarters in Tokyo Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. (Kazuhiro Nogi/Pool Photo via AP)

Tokyo Olympic organizers reiterate ‘we will hold the games’

By Chisato Tanaka - Associated Press

German Klaus Schwab, left, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, WEF, listens Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga displayed in screens during a video conference at the Davos Agenda, in Cologny near Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, January 29, 2021. The Davos Agenda, from 25 to 29 January 2021, is a online edition due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak gather global leaders to shape the principles, policies and partnerships needed in this challenging new context. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

Japan prime minister says he’s determined to hold Olympics

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

People wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus walk on the Odaiba waterfront as Olympic rings is seen in the background in Tokyo, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Tokyo Olympic Q&A: Officials try to explain how games happen

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

The Olympic rings are seen at the empty Odaiba waterfront in Tokyo, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. The Tokyo Games, postponed in the midst of a pandemic, are scheduled to open on July 23. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

IOC, Tokyo Olympics to unveil rule book for beating pandemic

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

A leftover toy bulldoze is seen near the Tokyo Aquatics Center, one of the venues of Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic games, in Tokyo Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. The postponed Tokyo Olympics are to open in just six months. Local organizers and the International Olympic Committee say they will go ahead on July 23. But it’s still unclear how this will happen with virus cases surging in Tokyo and elsewhere around the globe. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

AP PHOTOS: Postponed Tokyo Olympics to open in just 6 months

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

Japan National Stadium, where opening ceremony and many other events are planned for postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics, is seen from a rooftop observation deck Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021, in Tokyo. The postponed Tokyo Olympics are to open in just six months. Local organizers and the International Olympic Committee say they will go ahead on July 23. But it’s still unclear how this will happen with virus cases surging in Tokyo and elsewhere around the globe. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

Speculation over Tokyo Olympics: 2021, 2032 or not at all?

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

In this Nov. 16, 2020, file photo, Thomas Bach, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President, speaks during the joint press conference between IOC and Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) in Tokyo, Japan. The International Olympic Committee is pushing back against reports that the postponed Tokyo Olympics will be canceled and will not open on July 23. The Tokyo Games were postponed 10 months ago at the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, and now their future appears threatened again.(Du Xiaoyi/Pool Photo via AP, File) **FILE**

Amid cancellation talk, Tokyo Olympics ‘focused on hosting’

By Stephen Wade - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 10, 2008, file photo, Senior International Olympic Committee member Kevan Gosper speaks at a news conference in Beijing. Gosper, a former International Olympic Committee vice president, is suggesting the United Nations might be the place to decide the fate of the postponed Tokyo Olympic. They are to open on July 23, 2021, but face mounting opposition at home as COVID-19 cases surge in Tokyo, across Japan and across the globe. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, File)

Former IOC vice president says UN could rule on Tokyo Games

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A shopper wearing a protective mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus uses a mirror as she tries on a hat in a shopping street in Tokyo Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. The Japanese capital confirmed more than 1500 new coronavirus cases on Thursday. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan’s new virus emergency met with public indifference

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

In this Dec. 1, 2020, file photo, a man wearing a protective face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walks with the Olympic rings in the background in the Odaiba section in Tokyo. Opposition to the Tokyo Olympics is growing with calls for a cancellation as virus cases rise in Japan. The International Olympic Committee and local organizers have already said another postponement is impossible, leaving cancellation, or going ahead, as the only options. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File) **FILE**

To cancel or not?: IOC, Japan press ahead with Tokyo Games

By Stephen Wade and Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press

In this Dec. 1, 2020, file photo, a man and a woman walk past near the Olympic rings floating in the water in the Odaiba section in Tokyo. More than 80% of people in Japan who were surveyed in two polls in the last few days say the Tokyo Olympics should be canceled or postponed, or say they believe the Olympics will not take place. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

80% say Tokyo Olympics should be called off or won’t happen

By Stephen Wade - Associated Press

An Olympic torch for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is on display in Tokyo, Tuesday, March 24, 2020. Japan has announced Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, that it is halting a public display of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic torches as virus case jump in the country and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga orders a state of emergency for Tokyo and the surrounding areas until next month. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Spreading virus pulls Olympic torches off display in Japan

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

People wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walk across an intersection at Shinjuku neighborhood of Tokyo on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Japan declares emergency for Tokyo area as cases spike

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 3, 2020, photo, the Olympic rings float in the water at sunset in the Odaiba section in Tokyo. The year of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has arrived. That would be 2021. Ever since the Olympics were postponed nine months ago, local organizers and the IOC have been biding their time. They’ve said we’ll have to wait until early in 2021 for details about how the Olympics can open on July 23 in the middle of a pandemic. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Welcome 2021: The year of the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics

By BY STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press