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Activist Group Global Witness Says Tokyo May Fail To Carry Out Sustainability Vow

Activist group Global Witness said that Tokyo risks "falling down on its pledge to stage an environmentally sustainable 2020 Olympics due to the import of illegally felled timber from Southeast Asia," according to Humber & Kuwako of BLOOMBERG. Some of Japan's "biggest construction companies buy plywood from Borneo, where the rain forest is being logged inside a national park and on land set aside for native tribes." Global Witness said that Japan is "the world's biggest importer of plywood from tropical rain forests." Global Witness said, "The Japanese government has been aggressively selling the green credentials of the Tokyo Games, but the secret of Japan's construction industry -- its reliance on rain forest timber logged destructively in Sarawak -- is being left out of the rhetoric" (BLOOMBERG, 12/9). KYODO reported Tokyo Governor Yoichi Masuzoe on Tuesday "cautiously welcomed" the IOC's decision to "open up the event to new sports but spoke of anxiety over the costs of providing them" in '20. Masuzoe said he will have to discuss the "possible inclusion of new disciplines with the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee" (KYODO, 12/9).

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