Japan to scrap plans for Olympic stadium
Sky-rocketing costs for centrepiece of Tokyo 2020 Games had sparked outrage; new arrangements to be made soon
Tokyo
JAPANESE Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced on Friday the scrapping of a plan for a controversial national stadium, the centrepiece of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, after sky-rocketing costs sparked public outrage.
Anger over the stadium, the estimated cost of which had climbed to US$2.1 billion, almost twice its expected cost when Tokyo won the bid for the Summer Games in 2013, had become a liability for Mr Abe as he pushes unpopular defence bills through Parliament.
The new National Stadium was also meant to have been the centrepiece …
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