The founder of Bugaku and Samurai martial arts instructor Koshiro Minamoto holds a tablet as he shows his students a Samurai armor during an online class for Samurai experience in Tokyo, Japan, April 1, 2021. Picture taken on April 1, 2021. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
TOKYO (Reuters) - There was a time when Koshiro Minamoto had hoped to welcome foreign tourists during the Olympics by introducing them to the arts of the samurai from a classroom in central Tokyo.
But when the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee decided last year that the Games would be postponed, and then last month that they would be held without overseas spectators, he was forced to scrap his plans.
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