Before Covid-19 forced a delay, Japan's government saw the 'Recovery Olympics' as a way to show the Fukushima nuclear disaster was under control. But 10 years on, critics say many issues remain unresolved. MEMBERS OF THE Japan women's soccer team began the Olympic torch relay on 25 March this year, kicking off a four-month countdown to the Tokyo Summer Games after a year-long delay due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The brief opening ceremony - closed to the public and attended only by a small number of dignitaries - took place on a football pitch in J-Village. The sports complex lies just 20km south of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, where a devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami killed more than 18,000 people and triggered a triple nuclear meltdown in 2011. J-Village was used as a base for the thousands of clean-up workers tasked with decommissioning the plant.
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