TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- The Olympic flame arrived in Tokyo Friday morning from Australia after completing a relay in Canberra only marginally plagued by anti-China protests.
People greet the arrival of the Olympic torch on Friday in Tokyo, a day before the relay will be held in Japan.
From Tokyo, the flame travels to Nagano, the Japanese city that hosted the Winter Olympic Games in 1998, for the next leg of the relay Saturday morning.
Torchbearers in Nagano include Senichi Hoshino, manager of the Japanese national baseball team, and comedian Kinichi Hagimoto along with several Japanese Olympic medalists.
The original starting point of the Nagano relay, the city's famed Zenkoji Temple, declined to participate because of the March unrest in Tibet, forcing officials to move the start of the relay.
The torch ends its round-the-world jaunt in August in Beijing, China, host city of the 2008 Olympics.
Students for a Free Tibet Japan has announced plans to demonstrate at the Nagano leg of the relay with banners and speeches, but no loudspeakers, Japanese media reported. The demonstrators are protesting China's policy toward Tibet, which has long petitioned for more democratic rights and freedoms, and China's human rights record.
The torch has been shadowed on its journeys by pro-Tibet demonstrators who troubled the relay in London, England; Paris, France; and San Francisco, California. Stops in those cities attracted tens of thousands of demonstrators and prompted dozens of arrests.
Security concerns prompted Pakistani officials to close the relay to the public and hold it at a stadium in front of invited guests. India truncated the route and kept protesters at bay by lining the route with thousands of police officers and paramilitary troopers.
But stops in some countries, such as Argentina, Tanzania and Oman, have been trouble-free.
The flame arrived in Australia earlier this week from a relatively incident-free jaunt through Jakarta, Indonesia, where torchbearers circled a track around the city's main sports stadium in front of invited guests and journalists.
At least five people were arrested during the relay in Canberra, amid a few scuffles between pro-Tibet and pro-China demonstrators described by police as "minor."
In all, 80 runners carried the torch through the Australian capital. All along the route, and in a large crowd at the cauldron lighting, red Chinese national flags vastly outnumbered Australian flags or banners from any other nation.
Many in attendance appeared to be some of the thousands of Chinese students who study abroad in Australia each year.
Police quickly dealt with any signs of trouble, and the torch traveled its route -- shortened from 20 kilometers (12 miles) to 16 km (10 miles) because of security concerns -- with little difficulty. Only once did a protester run into the street directly in front of the torchbearer, but he was swiftly taken off the street and apprehended by police. E-mail to a friend
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