The government has decided to forgo the dispatch of ministers to the Beijing Olympics to be held in February next year. A plan to dispatch Seiko Hashimoto, chairman of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee, has emerged. Regarding the Beijing Olympics, the United States and other countries have announced a “diplomatic boycott” in which government officials are not dispatched due to human rights issues in China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Within the Liberal Democratic Party, former Prime Minister Abe was cautious about dispatching ministers, and Mr. Takaichi, the chairman of the political affairs, called for a diplomatic boycott. In light of this situation, according to government officials, Japan has also decided to forgo the dispatch of ministers. There is a proposal within the government to dispatch Seiko Hashimoto, chairman of the Tokyo Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. According to the executives of the Prime Minister’s Office, the policy is to announce the response of the Japanese government at the beginning of the year.
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