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FILE PHOTO: Running track are seen through a clock tower near
the construction site of the New National Stadium, the main
stadium of Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, in Tokyo
FILE PHOTO: Running track are seen through a clock tower near
the construction site of the New National Stadium, the main
stadium of Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, in Tokyo, Japan
August 6, 2018. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo
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Organizers of the Tokyo Olympics originally floated the idea of
setting clocks back one to two hours after scorching heat this
summer killed at least 120 people, raising concerns about the
safety of athletes, particularly marathon runners.
The Games will be held in late July and early August, Japan's
hottest, most humid months.
"I'd like to introduce this, but given problems with IT systems
and changes in public opinion, it's difficult to actually do
so," Asahi quoted Toshiaki Endo, a senior official of the ruling
Liberal Democratic Party who heads a committee considering the
proposal, as saying.
Japan will continue to discuss with the International Olympic
Committee about how to protect marathon runners and speed
walkers from the heat, it quoted Endo saying.
Three-quarters of Japanese firms oppose the proposal to adopt
daylight saving time ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, a Reuters
poll showed on Friday, citing the time and effort to adjust
computer systems as well as disruptions to public life.
Japan is among a handful of major economies that does not use
daylight saving time during the summer.
South Korea set its clocks back an hour in 1987 and 1988, when
it hosted the Summer Olympics in Seoul. After the Games it
reverted to a regime of no daylight saving time.
(Reporting by Stanley White; Editing by Gareth Jones)
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