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International Olympics Committee member and head of the Japanese Olympic Committee Tsunekazu Takeda, center, attends a JOC executive board meeting in Tokyo, on March 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan Olympic chief to step down in June amid bribery allegation

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Olympic Committee chief Tsunekazu Takeda said Tuesday he will step down at the end of his current term in June after facing Full article

Sumo

Yokozuna Hakuho, left, improves to a perfect 10-0 at the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament on March 19, 2019, in Osaka. (Kyodo)

Baseball

Japan High School Baseball Federation executive director Masahiko Takenaka offers a comment in response to Niigata Prefecture's high school baseball federation's decision to defer implementing a pitch limit, at Hanshin Koshien Stadium in the Hyogo Prefecture city of Nishinomiya, on March 18, 2019. (Mainichi/Aya Iguchi)

Soccer

Chelsea starting players pose for a team photo at the beginning of the Europa League round of 16, second leg soccer match between Dynamo Kiev and Chelsea at the Olympiyskiy stadium in Kiev, Ukraine, on March 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Rugby

Rugby player Ayumu Goromaru (2nd from right) and wheelchair rugby player Daisuke Ikezaki (2nd from left) pose for a photo in front of a Japan Airlines passenger jet with a design featuring Japan rugby players and wheelchair rugby players, depicted on the other side, to promote the Rugby World Cup and World Wheelchair Rugby Challenge, at Tokyo's Haneda airport in Tokyo, on March 19, 2019. (Kyodo)

Olympics and Paralympics　

International Olympics Committee member and head of the Japanese Olympic Committee Tsunekazu Takeda, center, attends a JOC executive board meeting in Tokyo, on March 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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