(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 24, 2019 From L-R: Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee president Yoshiro Mori, International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stand onstage as they attend a ceremony marking one year before the start of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. - Japan has asked for a one-year postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Games over the global coronavirus pandemic, and the International Olympic Committee has agreed, the country's prime minister said on March 24, 2020. "I proposed to postpone for about a year and president Bach responded with 100 percent agreement," Shinzo Abe told reporters referring to Thomas Bach, head of the IOC. (Photo by Behrouz MEHRI / AFP)