FUKUSHIMA (Reuters) – Japan officially started the Olympic torch relay in Fukushima on Thursday, kicking off a four-month countdown to the summer games in Tokyo, delayed from 2020 and the first ever organised during a global pandemic.
Seiko Hashimoto, the head of the Tokyo 2020 organising committee, told a small group of dignitaries and media attending the torch relay ceremony she believed the event would bring hope to those around Japan and the world during the global pandemic.
(Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka; Editing by Tom Hogue)
