On April 27, Sanae Takaichi, policy chief of the Liberal Democratic Party, criticized the timing of the government's announcement that it would not send a government delegation to the Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics. The government should have decided on a 'diplomatic boondoggle' as soon as possible," she said. The government should have promptly decided on a 'diplomatic boycott,'" she said in an Internet program.

Nihon Keizai Shimbun