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With just 45 days until the Olympic Games are due to begin, top officials are still insisting the games will go ahead, despite widespread concern about the safety of the event.
The head of Japan's Olympic organising committee, Seiko Hashimoto, has again ruled out any further postponement of the games and says she is 100 percent certain the event will go ahead.
But one of Japan's best-known Olympians and now an executive member of the Japanese Olympic Committee, Kaori Yamaguchi says Japan has been "cornered" into going ahead with the games, and accused the IOC of ignoring legitimate concerns about safety.
Kathryn speaks to Richard Lloyd Parry, the Asia Editor of The Times of London, based in Tokyo.
