Olympics: Architect plays down new stadium cauldron fears

Kengo Kuma, the architect of the new national stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, says in Tokyo on March 9, 2016 that the Olympic flame cauldron will be placed without trouble. His construction plan adopted in December 2015 mentioned nothing about the cauldron, just like the government's developmental plan in August 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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