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Visitors pose with a national flag with characters reading "Supporting the world" near the Olympic Flame during the Olympic "Flame of Recovery" display ceremony in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, northern Japan, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. IOC President Thomas Bach has agreed "100%" to a proposal of postponing the Tokyo Olympics for about one year until 2021 because of the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Visitors pose with a national flag with characters reading "Supporting the world" near the Olympic Flame during the Olympic "Flame of Recovery" display ceremony in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, northern Japan, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. IOC President Thomas Bach has agreed "100%" to a proposal of postponing the Tokyo Olympics for about one year until 2021 because of the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

March 25, 2020

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Tokyo's delayed Olympics: Who pays bills for another year?
March 25, 2020 3:07 a.m.

Tokyo's delayed Olympics: Who pays bills for another year?

TOKYO (AP) — With the Tokyo Olympics postponed until 2021, now comes the multi-billion-dollar question: Who pays the bills for the delay, and how large will they be?