Two months later it was revealed that the Tokyo Olympic Games would be postponed until the summer of 2021 – the first postponement in modern Olympic history.
The Mayor of Olympia has written to International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, proposing the postponement of the ceremony until May.
As for the possibility of postponement, he said: "You just don't postpone something on the size and scale of the Olympics.
As fainter aftershocks continued on Wednesday and Thursday, many Koreans said they support the postponement -- but some were inconsolable.
