FILE PHOTO - Olympics - Lighting ceremony of the Olympic flame for Tokyo 2020 - Ancient Olympia, Olympia, Greece - March 12, 2020 General view of the Tokyo 2020 logo on the torch during the opening of the Olympic flame torch relay for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Olympic flame, which flew to Japan last week from Greece, will be carried not by relay runners, but in a lantern in a scaled-down flame display event starting on Thursday from northern Japan's Fukushima prefecture, a local government official said.
(Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka; Editing by Alison Williams)
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