The Olympic Games finally got underway in Tokyo. A long-suffering competition, which was postponed for a year due to the COVID pandemic and the expediency of which was doubted until the last minute. The idea of the Olympics is not popular in Japan, as many as 80% of respondents opposed it in a May poll.
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A government official carries a bag with the logo of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games during a meeting between Tokyo's Governor Yuriko Koike and president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Organising Committee Seiko Hashimoto at the Tokyo metropolitan government building in Tokyo on Feb. 19, 2021.