Suga, Macron vow to share Olympics experience, boost defense ties Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed Saturday that Japan will pass on its experience of hosting a "safe and secure" Olympics -- being held in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic -- to France, host of the 2024 Summer Games. In a joint statement released after their meeting in Tokyo, Suga and Macron also affirmed deeper security cooperation as part of efforts to realize a free and open Indo-Pacific in the face of China's military buildup and assertive territorial claims in the region. The leaders celebrated the opening of the Summer Games in the Japanese capital, calling the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics "a symbol of world unity in defeating the novel coronavirus."