The latest Olympic event -- urban mining

The 2020 Games might show off a resource-rich Japan

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A boy enters the 2020 Olympic urban mining preliminaries by depositing a handset into a special recycling box at a Tokyo municipal office building on March 24.

SHOJI KODAMA, Nikkei senior deputy editor

TOKYO -- The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games has begun collecting old mobile phones and other small devices to create medals for the 2020 spectacle.

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