Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Thursday he has no plans to attend the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, while suggesting he is still considering various options over the U.S.-led diplomatic boycott of the games.
"At the moment, I have no plans to attend," Kishida said in parliament when asked about whether he will travel to China for the February Games by Shinkun Haku, a lawmaker of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan.
But Kishida followed up by saying, "It is important to make a judgment by myself at an appropriate time after comprehensively taking into account various issues in consideration of the national interest."