Disaster-Hit Fukushima to Host Baseball Games at 2020 Olympics
- Stadium about 70 kilometers from site of 2011 nuclear meltdown
- Organizers say events would support Tohoku recovery efforts
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Japan’s disaster-hit Fukushima prefecture will host some baseball and softball games at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, at a site about 70 kilometers (43 miles) from the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant.
The Tokyo organizing committee said in a statement Friday that the Fukushima Azuma Baseball Stadium would host the matches, adding that the events would support recovery efforts in the region devastated by the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdowns.