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Past and future in Tokyo Olympic venues

Tokyo: The venues planned for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo both look to the future and incorporate the past.   A futuristic 80,000-seat main stadium will be the centerpiece, touted by organizers as one of the


Table tennis will be held at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, home to water polo and gymnastics in 1964. And judo will return to Nippon Budokan.
   
If the 1964 Olympics raised the curtain on Japan's era of rapid economic growth, the 2020 version will be more about revitalizing a city -- and a nation -- that prides itself on cutting-edge technology.