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World Athletics last year fined Russia's suspended athletics federation and limited the number of Russian athletes allowed to compete at this year's Olympics to 10, in response to doping offences by senior federation officials.
Asahi Shimbun daily called for the Olympics to be cancelled in an editorial on Wednesday.
Olympic and Paralympic tickets purchased by overseas residents will be refunded.
A December poll by public broadcaster NHK showed a third of Japanese residents want the Games to be scrapped due to fears an influx of foreign arrivals may cause a further spike in COVID-19 cases.
Tennis player Naomi Osaka, who was born in Japan to a Haitian father and Japanese mother but raised in the United States, narrated the motto's promotional video.
The 28-year-old Shobushi was the first sumo wrestler in Japan to test positive for the virus.
Tokyo 2020 organisers will host celebrations marking the one-year countdown to the Olympics on Thursday (July 23).
The Olympics were due to begin on Friday with an extravagant opening ceremony in the National Stadium but the Games have instead been delayed until July 23, 2021, because of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Japan and the International Olympic Committee postponed the Tokyo Games until 2021 in March because of the coronavirus pandemic.
As part of its partnership agreement with the IOA, the group will further support the Indian contingent's promotions through its entertainment company, INOX Leisure Limited, at its multiplex properties around the country.
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