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Japan is not sending a government delegation to the Winter Olympics in China next year, but does not want to refer to it as a diplomatic boycott. Seiko Hashimoto, president of the organizing committee for the Summer Olympics held in Japan this year, and two other Olympic representatives will be sent to Beijing, Japanese government spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno said on Friday. The head of the Japanese Paralympic Committee, Kazuyuki Mori, will also go to Beijing for the Winter Games, the government spokesman added. However, Matsuno did not want to call the decision a diplomatic boycott like the one…