Olympics: Tokyo 2020 gets cherry blossom design in torch of "hope"

Drawing on the imagery of Japan's iconic cherry blossoms, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic torch was unveiled on Wednesday by designer Tokujin Yoshioka.The torch relay will begin winding its way through Japan next March, when Japan's ubiquitous "sakura" cherry trees start coming into bloom and ushering in the nation's annual spring inspiration.Thus the torch, with its cherry blossom motif -- that also recalls the image of five Olympic rings -- fits neatly into the torch relay's theme, "Hope Lights Our Way." This in turn fits into the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics theme of focusing on reconstruc…READ FULL ARTICLE