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Tokyo 2020 organizing committee president Seiko Hashimoto and Japanese Olympic Committee president Yasuhiro Yamashita will attend the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games, announced the Japanese government on Friday.
TOKYO (AP) Japan announced Friday it won't send a delegation of ministers to represent the government at the Beijing Games but three Olympic officials will attend, a mixed response to a U.S.-led move to boycott the games to protest China's human rights conditions.
Japan does not plan to send government officials to February's Beijing Olympics, Tokyo said Friday, after the US and other countries announced diplomatic boycotts over rights concerns.