Japan Olympic win boosts Abe, but Fukushima shadows linger

A flame relume on the Olympic cauldron, which was used the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, during an event celebrating Tokyo being chosen to host the 2020 Olympic Games, at the National Stadium in Tokyo, in this photo taken by Kyodo September 8, 2013. REUTERS/Kyodo

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan savoured its victory on Monday in the race to host the 2020 Olympic Games, anticipating an economic boost to spur its revival from two decades of stagnation and help it recover from the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

But while Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's bold gamble to throw himself into the Tokyo bid paid off handsomely, his claims to have the problems of the crippled Fukushima nuclear reactor under control ran into fresh resistance.