Regarding the Beijing Olympics next year, the government is making adjustments in the direction of refraining from dispatching ministers, based on the fact that the United States and other countries have announced that they will not dispatch government officials one after another. It is a policy to decide the correspondence.

Regarding the Beijing Olympics next year, the Biden administration of the United States has announced a "diplomatic boycott" that does not send government officials because of human rights issues in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and countries such as the United Kingdom and Canada are in tune with each other. increase.



Also, within the Liberal Democratic Party, the chairman of the political investigation of Takaichi said, "Human rights violations by China are a problem, and Japan should not send official delegations or diplomatic corps." There is a growing demand for a "diplomatic boycott".



The government says that it will make a decision on its own at an appropriate time by comprehensively considering various circumstances, but in addition to the trends of each country such as the United States, the Chinese government will play sports at the time of the Tokyo Olympics. Taking into consideration the circumstances in which the director of the National Sports Bureau, which has jurisdiction over the United States, has been dispatched, we are making adjustments in the direction of refraining from dispatching ministers.



And it is a policy to decide the final response by the end of the year.