Tokyo Olympic torch relay kicks off amid COVID-19 worries

Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee President Hashimoto Seiko (L, front) applauds next to Iwashimizu Azusa (R, front), former member of "Nadeshiko Japan", the Japan women's National Football Team, on the first day of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic torch relay at J-Village National Training Center in Futaba, Fukushima of Japan, on March 25, 2021. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool via Xinhua)