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Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games Torch

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Yoshinori Sakai was born in Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, the day the atomic bomb was dropped. His role as last torchbearer was highly symbolic: Yoshinori Sakai was the veritable personification of peace and the reconstruction of Japan after the War.

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