Japanese Olympic Committee chief Seiko Hashimoto has stressed the importance of hosting major international multisport events as she expressed readiness to revive a stalled bid for the Winter Olympics."It is the JOC's mission to bring international sporting events to Japan. It is important that people feel confident that Japan can successfully host them," Hashimoto said in a recent interview with Kyodo News ahead of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.Noting that only a limited number of countries are capable of staging large-scale multisport events in both summer and winter, the seven-time Olympi…READ FULL ARTICLE
