Sports minister Shimomura to step down over stadium blunder

Photo shows education and sports minister Hakubun Shimomura attending a Cabinet meeting in Tokyo on Sept. 25, 2015. He will step down in a Cabinet reshuffle in early October over the mishandling of a project to build the 2020 Tokyo Olympics main stadium. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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