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Shameless Japan
Tokyo should delete Dokdo from its Olympic map
Japan has become the target of growing criticism for its description of Korea s easternmost islets of Dokdo as its territory on the homepage of the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. Japan s Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato has refused to accept Korea s demand that Dokdo be deleted from its Olympic map. During a press conference Friday, Kato, who is also Japanese government s top spokesman, repeated Japan s claim that Takeshima, the Japanese name for Dokdo, is its own territory based on historical fact.
Though expected, Japan s move is very regrettable, as it will surely fan anti-Japan sentiment here and prompt calls for a boycott of the Tokyo Summer Olympics, set to start July 23. Kato s statement followed former Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon s threat of an Olympic boycott unless Japan corrects the Olympic map.
IOC Session praises achievements of Olympic Agenda 2020 and unanimously approves closing report IOC
The IOC Session today praised the achievements of Olympic Agenda 2020, the strategic roadmap for the IOC and the Olympic Movement. Following the review of the Closing Report on Olympic Agenda 2020, the IOC Members approved it unanimously.
Adopted by the IOC at its 127th Session in Monaco in December 2014, Olympic Agenda 2020 is a set of 40 detailed recommendations whose overarching goal was to safeguard the Olympic values and strengthen the role of sport in society. Identified and collated through a collaborative and consultative process involving Olympic Movement stakeholders and outside experts, they were driven by an understanding that the world was evolving rapidly and that the Olympic Movement had the opportunity to be an agent of change. The motto underpinning the process from identification to adoption to implementation was “change or be chan