Olympics: Koike asks municipalities to pay for Olympic facilities

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike gives a lecture at a forum sponsored by Kyodo News at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 12, 2017. Koike urged other municipalities hosting 2020 Olympic and Paralympic events to shoulder up to 40 billion yen ($350 million) of the costs to build temporary facilities, saying, "We should just stop pushing the burden onto each other." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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