In its metropolitan news section on Sunday, Yomiuri reported that Ambassador Hagerty and Tokyo Governor Koike took part in a sports festival at Sugekari Elementary School in Tokyo on Saturday as part of the Tokyo metropolitan government’s “Global Friendship Project” designed to encourage local students to increase ties with foreign countries ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The daily quoted the Ambassador as telling the students that it is important for the United States and Japan to learn about each other and to enhance their friendship. Sankei ran a similar article in which it referred to the Embassy’s “Go for Gold” initiative.