The Tokyo Olympic torch relay starts! Rimi Ishihara helps out there is no audience at the scene

　　China News Service, March 25, reported that the one-year-overdue Tokyo Olympic torch relay was launched in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan on the morning of the 25th.

Japanese actor Rimi Ishihara participated in the lighting of the torch. The torchbearer started from the football facility at the symbolic location of the convention's concept of "Rebuilding the Olympics" and the base for the suppression of the Fukushima nuclear accident.

In the next 121 days, approximately 10,000 runners are expected to relay all over Japan.

　　According to reports, at 9 am local time on the 25th, the torch relay departure ceremony was held.

The attendees included 5 official ambassadors including the chairman of the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee Hashimoto Seiko, Olympic Minister Marukawa Suyo, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, and five official ambassadors including actor Rimi Ishihara and former Paralympic shooter Taguchi Aki.

Due to the epidemic situation, general audiences are not allowed to enter the departure ceremony.

Rimi Ishihara and Paralympic athletes participated in lighting the torch.

　　According to reports, the members of the Japanese women's national team who won the Women's World Cup in 2011 collectively served as the first torchbearer.

The torch will be passed in Fukushima Prefecture until the 27th, and then it will tour the Japanese archipelago in a clockwise direction.

After about 10,000 torchbearers passed, the torch will be lit on the torch stage at the National Arena at the opening ceremony on July 23.

　　The report pointed out that under the situation that the number of new infections of the new crown epidemic is increasing, safe operations that take into account the epidemic prevention have become the focus.

The Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee requires spectators along the road to observe precautions, including avoiding crowds, wearing masks, and clapping their hands to cheer.

　　In addition, the Winter Olympics Organizing Committee also discussed the possibility of canceling the torch relay in the area when the crowd is too dense; if the staff are infected in groups, they will also consider stopping the torch relay on open roads.