• Providing perspective: Former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (center), the president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Organizing Committee, addressed the international media on Sunday in Sochi, Russia. In the photo, he is joined by Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda (left). | KYODO
    Providing perspective: Former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (center), the president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Organizing Committee, addressed the international media on Sunday in Sochi, Russia. In the photo, he is joined by Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda (left). | KYODO
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SOCHI, RUSSIA – Yoshiro Mori, the new Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Organizing Committee president and former Prime Minister, faced some tough questions from the international media at a news conference on Sunday morning at the Main Media Center for the Sochi Games.

One reporter wanted to know why the 76-year-old Mori spoke in Japanese instead of English while addressing an audience including reporters from foreign countries.

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