Tokyo Games stakeholders pledge gender equality on Int'l Women's Day

The Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics stakeholders vowed to make this summer's games "a landmark in gender equality on and off the field of play" in a joint statement released Monday, International Women's Day."We resolve to make (the Tokyo Games) considered as a turning point in history when looking back many years later," organizing committee president Seiko Hashimoto said in a statement with the International Olympic Committee, the International Paralympic Committee, the Japanese government and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.The statement noted that the Tokyo Olympics will be "the first …READ FULL ARTICLE