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Japan plans to play next year's Tokyo Olympic baseball game at a stadium about an hour away from the Fukushima nuclear power plant in question. However, this week we invited 10-year-old and 11-year-old players to 14 countries and held a baseball tournament in Fukushima to show that Japan is safe. Our players didn't go.

This is reporter Kim Jung-woo.

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The World Children's Baseball Festival, 29th this year, is an international competition for athletes under 12 years old.

Japanese baseball hero Osadaharu is chairman of the tournament foundation and is held in Japan every summer.

More than 140 teams from 14 countries, including the United States, France and Taiwan, spent nine days in Fukushima.

Korea also sent troops every year, but this time they were absent due to radiation concerns.

Azuma Baseball Stadium is only 67 km away from the Fukushima nuclear power plant where an explosion occurred during the Great East Japan Earthquake.

[O Sadaharu / President, 'World Children's Baseball Festival': The exact information is not known outside, but when you come to Fukushima, the food is good and safe in some way. I hope I can inform you about this as much as possible.]

Just 20km from Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, J Village, Japan's national soccer training center, which was used as the headquarters for the nuclear explosion, also held a media public event.

J Village was chosen as the starting point for domestic shipment of torch for the Tokyo Olympics.

Despite growing concerns around the world, Japanese authorities have responded by strengthening the publicity that Fukushima is safe.

(Video Editing: Park Player)