Sponsors, volunteers welcome Hashimoto as Tokyo Olympics head

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.Toyoda had been among those to criticize the former head of the committee Yoshiro Mori, an 83-year-old former Japanese prime minister, for saying at a Japanese Olympic Committee gathering on Feb…READ FULL ARTICLE