TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Fukuoka prefecture will cancel the Olympic torch relay in the prefecture, Kyodo News agency reported on Friday.
It would be a first for a whole prefecture not to have runners participate in the event, Kyodo said.
(Reporting by Daniel Leussink; Editing by Chang-Ran Kim)
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