More than 8 million residents of Japan have registered to buy tickets for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics next summer, the games organizing committee said Monday.Registration of a "Tokyo 2020 ID" is necessary before buying tickets and 50,000 people had already completed the process when the summary of ticket prices was released in July last year.Around 3.22 million tickets were sold during the first phase of the Olympics ticket lottery in May that saw heavy traffic disrupt the official ticketing website. An additional 350,000 were sold in August during a window open to those unsuccessful…READ FULL ARTICLE
