Japan Enters ‘Vivere Pericoloso’ With Persistent Olympics
Japan is aiming to showcase the latest artificial intelligence-based technology when it stages the Tokyo 2020 Games. The display of sophistication must go on despite the threatening COVID-19 pandemic.
Poland\'s team arrive for Tokyo 2020 Olympics at Narita international airport in Narita, east of Tokyo, Sunday, July 18, 2021.
TOKYO, KOMPAS — The beaming smile of sprinter Yoshinori Sakai, 19, next to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics cauldron was like magic that galvanized applause and cheers from the crowd. The Olympic flame heralded Japan\'s emergence as a world giant, industrial-based economic power.
The nation is now seeking to repeat the awakening moment through the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which runs from July 23 to Aug. 8 — though in a more subdued atmosphere because of the COVID-19 pandemic.