TOKYO -- Japan has decided not to send senior officials to the Beijing Olympics in February, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said at a news conference on Friday, a move that will align it with a U.S. diplomatic boycott over China's alleged human rights abuses.
In addition to cabinet members, the government will not send Koji Murofushi, director general of the Japan Sports Agency, whose dispatch had been under consideration. Matsuno cited "comprehensive judgment," including human rights issues, as the reason for the move.
