FOCUS: Extra COVID-19 costs weigh heavily on Tokyo Paralympics host towns

Municipalities across Japan registered for the government's "Host Town" program for pre-Tokyo Paralympics training camps and cultural exchanges are being required to cover additional COVID-19-related costs out of their own pockets, and some are giving up on the move.While basic costs for dealing with the novel coronavirus are being subsidized by the government, additional measures required to ensure safe transportation and accommodation of disabled athletes are not."It costs millions of yen," said a person in charge for a municipality far from the Tokyo metropolitan area, scheduled to welco…READ FULL ARTICLE