Tokyo Olympic torch relay stirs mixed emotions ahead of its Fukushima start


Soccer training facilities are pictured at the J-Village training center where torch relay of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is set to begin in Naraha, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, March 23, 2021. Picture taken March 23, 2021. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

(Updates with quotes and info from Tokyo 2020 news conference held on Wednesday afternoon. Removes extraneous language from advisory)

FUKUSHIMA/TOKYO (Reuters) - When Shusaku Sagi was 19, he watched his soccer training centre at J-Village in Fukushima morph into a base for workers decommissioning the nuclear power plant nearby after the 2011 earthquake crippled it and caused thousands to flee.

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