FUKUSHIMA -- The Olympic flame, which arrived in Japan before the Tokyo Games were postponed, was opened for public viewing Thursday at the J-Village national soccer training center in Fukushima Prefecture.
The complex was chosen as the starting point of the Olympic torch relay in Japan, which has also been delayed. It is located in the towns of Naraha and Hirono, near Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant that was hit by the March 2011 earthquake and subsequent tsunami.
Kept in a lantern, the flame was shown to the media on Wednesday.
The flame can be viewed through April 30 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. In a bid to prevent the further spread of the new coronavirus, visitors are urged to wear masks and keep an appropriate distance from others while lining up to see it.
"I hope [the Olympic flame] will provide new momentum for reconstruction [from the disaster]," Hirono Mayor Satoshi Endo said.
According to the organizing committee, the Olympic flame will be delivered to Tokyo next month after the display ends at J-Village.
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