Baseball/softball to open in quake-hit area for Tokyo 2020

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach delivers a keynote speech at the World Forum on Sport and Culture at a hotel in Tokyo on Oct. 20, 2016. Bach said baseball and softball's return to the Olympic program will begin in the part of Japan hit hardest by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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