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Japan aims for celebratory sporting revival with 2026 Asian Games after subdued Olympics
Five years after the COVID‑19 pandemic denied Tokyo the Olympic celebration it had hoped for, Japan will welcome fans back to a major multi‑sport spectacle when the 20th Asian Games open in Nagoya on Saturday.
Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic robbed Tokyo of the Olympic party it hoped for, Japan will welcome fans to a major multi-sport event when the 20th Asian Games open in Nagoya on Saturday.
Japan's third Asian Games, and first since Hiroshima 1994, gives the nation a chance to restore some of the communal sporting experience lost at the COVID-delayed Olympics, when health restrictions barred spectators from almost all events.
