The Tokyo Olympics is running a village for athletes and coaches where more than 80% are vaccinated against the coronavirus, testing is compulsory and movement is stringently curtailed.

None of that is true for the giant capital that surrounds the Olympic "bubble."

The athletes village and Olympic press center represent a huge, strict COVID-19 control zone for the more than 50,000 competitors, coaches, staff and journalists. Meanwhile, outside the fence, host city Tokyo — despite laboring through its fourth coronavirus state of emergency as infections spike to record highs — is leading something like life as pandemic-normal.