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Portable shrines with numbers on top depicting &quot;1,000&quot; are carried by local people during a Tokyo 2020 Olympics countdown event in Tokyo Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. Tokyo marked 1,000 days to go Saturday before the start of the 2020 Olympics with a ceremony that included a demonstration of new sports that will debut at the Summer Games. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Tokyo marks 1,000 days to go before start of 2020 Olympics

By JIM ARMSTRONG - Associated Press

Tokyo Organizing Committee CEO of the 2020 Olympics Toshiro Muto speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Tokyo Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017. The top Tokyo Olympic organizer has pledged to keep water clean and safe at marathon swimming and triathlon venue where E. coli bacterial contamination has been detected during the summer, saying they are implementing measures that are showing improvement. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

AP Interview: Tokyo vows clean water for Olympic triathlon

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - IN this Sept. 18, 2015, file photo, Fred Armisen is shown during the filming of the television show &quot;Portlandia&quot; in Portland, Ore. During a recent appearance on the PBS ancestry series “Finding Your Roots,&quot; Armisen learned that his grandfather was a legendary dancer from Japan who, while living in Germany in the 1930s and 40s, allegedly volunteered in propaganda work for the Third Reich and moonlighted as a spy for the emperor in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)

Armisen startled after discovering he’s ‘quarter Korean’

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

In this Sept. 1, 2017, photo, Lee Hee-beom, center, president of the Pyeongchang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, and attendance are silhouetted as they participate in a launching ceremony of the commemorative coins and bank notes for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea. The Winter Olympics coming to South Korea in February offer an example of the Olympian efforts often required to meet corporate sponsorship goals. Tokyo tells a different story: The coffers are already overflowing for the 2020 Summer Games. It’s a tale of two cities and two Olympics - winter and summer. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Tale of 2 cities: Olympics sponsors in Pyeongchang and Tokyo

By YOUKYUNG LEE and MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Official: Tokyo stadium worker was overworked before suicide

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

IOC, Tokyo organizers aim to cut costs for the 2020 Olympics

By JIM ARMSTRONG - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, cheers with the lawmakers of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, at the launch of the party's election headquarters in Tokyo, Thursday, Sept 28, 2017. A surge of popularity for a freshly minted opposition party in Japan is making Prime Minister Abe’s decision to call a snap election look riskier than initially thought. Abe dissolved the lower house of parliament Thursday, setting the stage for an Oct. 22 vote. (Takuya Inaba/Kyodo News via AP)

Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, faces new challenge as he calls snap election

By Mari Yamaguch and Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

Visitors try out a game with a virtual reality headset device at the Tokyo Game Show in Chiba, near Tokyo, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. The Japanese video game industry is finding its way out of the doldrums, by adapting new technology for decades-old titles. And that energy was evident at the annual game show. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japanese video gaming adapting new tech for familiar titles

By SHERRY ZHENG and YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

South Korea's President Moon Jae-in, second from right, arrives for the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday Sept. 19, 2017, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Trump’s North Korea threats leave Asia struggling to explain

By FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

TV monitors show the J-Alert (warning siren) at an office of Kyodo News in Tokyo Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. South Korea's military said North Korea fired an unidentified missile Friday from its capital Pyongyang that flew over Japan before landing in the northern Pacific Ocean. (Toshiyuki Kuwana/Kyodo News via AP)

North Korea fires missile over Japan in longest-ever flight

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

Japan's Tokyo Olympic minister Shunichi Suzuki, second left, inspects the construction of the new national stadium in Tokyo, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017. Tokyo's main Olympic stadium is starting to take shape as structures of what will become spectator stands are being installed after 10 months of underground foundation work. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Just over 2 years left, intense work at Tokyo stadium site

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Osprey flights continue in the Pacific, despite Japanese demands to end operations

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 17, 2017, file photo, the container ship ACX Crystal with its left bow dented and scraped after colliding with the USS Fitzgerald off Japan earlier in the day, is berthed at the Oi Container Terminal in Tokyo. Japanese authorities said Monday, July 24, 2017, they’re wrapping up their investigation into the collision of the freighter and the USS Fitzgerald without any verdict into what caused the accident, which left seven Navy sailors dead. The ACX Crystal and most of its crew were allowed to leave Japan for Thailand on Sunday, July 23 after repairs were finished. Coast guard officials said they don’t expect charges to be filed. (Hitoshi Takano/Kyodo News via AP, File)

Japan almost finished with probe into US Navy ship collision

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

In this July 23, 2017 photo, the Olympic village is seen under construction in Tokyo. Japan has begun its three-year countdown to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo with relays, concerts and dancing meant to help drum up public enthusiasm for the event. The 2020 Games will be Japan’s first summer Olympics since the 1964 games in Tokyo. After a rocky start, organizers are gearing up to get the public more involved. (Yohei Kanasashi/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan marks three-year countdown to Tokyo 2020 Games

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Tokyo Organizing Committee of Tokyo 2020 Olympics CEO Toshiro Muto speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. Muto said that uncertainty over the final budget will continue until 2019, the year before the Summer Games. “We will continue to explore more cost efficiencies,” Muto told the foreign media amid concerns regarding the higher-than-projected costs. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Tokyo 2020: Budget uncertainty will continue to 2019

By SHERRY ZHENG - Associated Press

Abroad program allows student’s return to birthplace

By JON LONG - Associated Press

Mississippi martial artist has eye on Tokyo Olympics

By EMMALYNE KWASNY - Associated Press

This image made from video of a news bulletin aired by North Korea's KRT on Tuesday, July 4, 2017, shows what was said to be North Korea leader Kim Jung Un, center, watching the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile, ICBM, in North Korea's northwest. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this photo. North Korea claimed to have tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile in a launch Tuesday, a potential game-changing development in its push to militarily challenge Washington but a declaration that conflicts with earlier South Korean and U.S. assessments that it had an intermediate range. (KRT via AP Video)

North Korea claims it tested first intercontinental missile

By Hyung-jin Kim and Foster Klug - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 15, 2017 file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves during a military parade in Pyongyang, North Korea to celebrate the 105th birth anniversary of Kim Il Sung, the country's late founder and grandfather of current ruler Kim Jong Un. South Korea's military said Tuesday, July 4, 2017 North Korea has launched another ballistic missile. The launch is part of a string of test-firings in recent months as the North works to build a nuclear-tipped missile that could reach the United States. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

N. Korea launches possibly most successful missile test yet

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

In this Thursday, June 29, 2017 photo, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike waves to a crowd during her “Tomin (Tokyoites) First” party's campaign rally for Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election in Tokyo. Tokyo residents were voting for the city's assembly in an election Sunday, July 2, 2017, that could alter national politics as the populist governor Koike aims to strengthen her base and challenge Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's scandal-laden ruling party. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)

Tokyo governor’s party heads for big win in city election

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press