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The Chopin Piano Competition, day four: highs, and a major discovery

Follow along for the latest news, results and features from The Times’ team of 12 reporters covering the Tokyo Olympic Games. So, as colleague Victoria Kim and I searched Tokyo’s Koreatown of Shin-Okubo for a place to watch the Olympic baseball game on Wednesday night, I braced myself for an uncomfortable experience. I didn’t anticipate any violence, not in Tokyo, a place so peaceful that some police officers are armed with wooden sticks instead of guns. But watching the game in the compa...