TOKYO - Corporate sponsors, volunteers and torchbearers for this summer's Tokyo Games have welcomed the selection of Japan's former Olympic minister Seiko Hashimoto as the new head of the organizing committee, with many praising the choice as suitable.
Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor Corp., one of the top sponsors of the Olympics, said Thursday he "sincerely welcomes" Hashimoto to the position.
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