All broadcasters gave top play to the official decision by the International Olympic Committee to add baseball/softball, karate, surfing, skateboarding, and sports climbing to the program for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Lead items in today’s national papers included yesterday’s cabinet reshuffle and North Korea’s launch of a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan.
Morning news
- August 4, 2016
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