(11 Dec 2016) Tokyo held a groundbreaking ceremony on Sunday for the 1.5 (b) billion US dollar national stadium to host the 2020 Olympic Games. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike and other dignitaries launched the construction at the site of the demolished National Stadium, which was used during the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, by putting their hands on a glass sphere that rotated through pastels of the colours of the Olympic logo. The ceremony ended with a video replete with computer graphics showing how the stadium is expected to look and function once completed by November 2019. Work on the stadium in the centre of the city fell behind schedule because the government abandoned the original design amid spiralling costs and complaints over its scale and appearance. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/d7e9b061bda854bcfeec6497cf614325 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork