Olympics: Tokyo to invite children from disaster-hit prefectures

The Tokyo metropolitan government said Thursday that special invitations will be made to junior athletes from four disaster-hit prefectures when the Japanese capital hosts the 2020 Summer Games, in keeping with the branding of the competitions as "the reconstruction Olympics."The youngsters will be from the northeastern prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, which were hard hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and from Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan, which has suffered from severe earthquakes.The metropolitan government is hoping the children will not only witness t…READ FULL ARTICLE