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International Olympic Committee (IOC) Vice President John Coates answers questions from a journalist during an IOC-Tokyo 2020 joint press conference in Tokyo Friday, June 30, 2017. Coates said the addition of new sports at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will attract youth and create gender equality without driving up costs. In an effort to give the games a more youthful and urban appeal, the IOC has added 3-on-3 basketball and BMX Freestyle cycling to the Tokyo program for a net increase of 15 gold medals for a 321-event program. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

IOC VP: Tokyo 2020 will attract youth, offer gender equality

By JIM ARMSTRONG - Associated Press

International Olympic Committee (IOC) Vice President John Coates, right, and Tokyo 2020 Olympics President Yoshiro Mori, center, shake hands prior to the IOC Coordination Commission opening plenary for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 in Tokyo Wednesday, June 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

IOC’s Coates stresses cost cuts during Tokyo visit

By JIM ARMSTRONG - Associated Press

In this photo released by U.S. Navy, sailors fold seven U.S. flags during a memorial ceremony at Fleet Activities (FLEACT) Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, Tuesday, June 27, 2017, for seven sailors assigned to USS Fitzgerald who were killed in the June 17 collision. The U.S. Navy has paid tribute to the sailors killed as their warship collided with a merchant ship off Japan this month. The USS Fitzgerald and the Philippine-flagged container collided in the Japanese waters off Yokosuka in the pre-dawn hours of June 17. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Raymond D. Diaz III/U.S. Navy via AP)

U.S. Navy holds memorial service for 7 sailors killed in crash

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Japanese air bag maker Takata Corp. CEO Shigehisa Takada bows at the beginning of a press conference in Tokyo, Monday, June 26, 2017. Takata Corp. has filed for bankruptcy protection in Tokyo and the U.S., overwhelmed by lawsuits and recall costs related to its production of defective air bag inflators. (Akiko Matsushita/Kyodo News via AP)

‘Like bombs’: Bankrupt company’s air bags still out there

By TOM KRISHER and DEE-ANN DURBIN and MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Takata files for bankruptcy, overwhelmed by air bag recalls

By TOM KRISHER and MARCY GORDON - Associated Press

In this June 17, 2017, photo, the damaged Philippine-registered container ship ACX Crystal cruises off Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, after colliding with the USS Fitzgerald off Japan earlier in the day. Experts generally agree that the ACX Crystal, coming from behind, tried to pass the USS Fitzgerald on the right side. Extensive damage to the destroyer’s starboard side and that to the container on its port side suggest that, but it is too early to determine which side is responsible, they say. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

US warship crash site known for congested nighttime traffic

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 3, 2016, file photo, people visit a festival held at Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo. Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike said Tuesday, June 20, 2017, the giant Tsukiji fish market, popular with tourists, will stay, although it will get modernized and developed within five years. Koike said that the market will temporarily move to Toyosu, which required a 600 billion yen ($6 billion) investment. She canceled the move in August, just months before Toyosu's scheduled opening, after food safety concerns were raised. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Famous Tsukiji fish market will be remade, not destroyed

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

The damage of the right side of the USS Fitzgerald is seen off Shimoda, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, after the Navy destroyer collided with a merchant ship, Saturday, June 17, 2017. The U.S. Navy says the USS Fitzgerald suffered damage below the water line on its starboard side after it collided with a Philippine-flagged merchant ship. (Iori Sagisawa/Kyodo News via AP)

U.S., Japan search for 7 Navy sailors, puzzle over ship crash

By Eugene Hoshiko and Koji Ueda - Associated Press

In this photo released by Japan's Defense Ministry, an injured USS Fitzgerald personnel is carried by U.S. military personnel, left, and Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force members upon arriving to the U.S. Naval base in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo, after the U.S. destroyer collided with the Philippine-registered container ship ACX Crystal in the waters off the Izu Peninsula Saturday, June 17, 2017. Seven Navy sailors were missing and at least two, including the captain, were injured after the collision off the coast of Japan before dawn Saturday, the U.S. Navy and Japanese coast guard reported. (Japan's Defense Ministry via AP)

The Latest: US Navy says bodies of sailors found on ship

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FILE- In this April 2, 2017, file photo, South Carolina coach Dawn Staley cuts down the net as she and the team celebrate their win over Mississippi State in the final of NCAA women's Final Four college basketball tournament in Dallas. South Carolina leaves June 27 and will play three games in Tokyo against Japan’s national team before returning July 5. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

South Carolina women’s hoops team gets back to work

By PETE IACOBELLI - Associated Press

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)

3-on-3 basketball added to 2020 Tokyo Olympic program

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

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)

Tokyo Olympics cost twice the initial estimate: Why?

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

U.S. Pacific Command Commander Adm. Harry Harris Jr. shakes hands with guests after deliverinfg a speech at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Wednesday, May 17, 2017, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

US admiral: North Korea’s actions ‘recipe for disaster’

By KAORI HITOMI - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 13, 2017 file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, is accompanied by Pak Pong Ju, right, Hwang Pyong So, second left, as he arrives for the official opening of the Ryomyong residential area, in Pyongyang, North Korea. Pyongyang will seek the extradition of anyone involved in what it says was a CIA-backed plot to kill leader Kim Jung Un April, 2017, with a biochemical poison, a top North Korean foreign ministry official said Thursday, May 11, 2017.(AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

North Korea: New long-range missile can carry heavy nuke

By FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

Japan, India to strengthen defense cooperation

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Australian Olympic Committee President John Coates comments on his re-election during the AOC's annual general meeting in Sydney, Saturday, May 6, 2017. Coates will serve another four-year term as president of the Australian Olympic Committee after beating former field hockey gold medalist Danni Roche by a landslide in an election. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Coates coasts to win in Australian Olympic Committee vote

By DENNIS PASSA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016, file photo, United States' Kerri Walsh Jennings digs for a ball while playing Brazil during the women's beach volleyball bronze medal match of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Five-time Olympian Walsh Jennings is looking for a new partner - and a new beach volleyball tour - after rejecting an exclusivity agreement with the AVP that would have locked her into the circuit through the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Making waves on the beach: Walsh Jennings will skip AVP tour

By JIMMY GOLEN - Associated Press

In this photo provided by South Korean Defense Ministry, a South Korean navy sailor watches the destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer during a joint exercises between the United States and South Korea in South Korea's West Sea Tuesday, April 25, 2017. South Korea's military said Tuesday that North Korea held major live-fire drills in an area around its eastern coastal town of Wonsan as it marked the anniversary of the founding of its military. (South Korean Defense Ministry via AP)

Seoul: North Korea holds drill to mark military anniversary

By Eric Talmadge and Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

In this April 15, 2017, photo, missiles are paraded across Kim Il Sung Square during a military parade to celebrate the 105th birth anniversary of Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang, North Korea. Fresh off an immense North Korean parade that revealed an arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles, rival South Korea and its allies are bracing for the possibility that Pyongyang's follow-up act will be even bigger. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

North Korea quiet amid expectation of missile follow-up

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

The nuclear-powered submarine USS Michigan approaches to join the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in drills near the Korean Peninsula, at Busan port in Busan, South Korea, Tuesday, April 25, 2017. North Korea marks the founding anniversary of its military on Tuesday, and South Korea and its allies are bracing for the possibility that it could conduct another nuclear test or launch an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time. (Jo Jung-ho/Yonhap via AP)

The Latest: Chinese media warn N. Korea against nuke test

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