On Sept. 20 the JAAF announced that three members of Japan's team for the Sept. 29-Oct. 5 Hangzhou Asian Games have withdrawn due to injury. According to the announcement, Arisa Kimishima, the only Japanese woman scheduled to run the 100 m and 200 m, is out with plantar fasciitis. Haruka Kokai, one of two women in the 10000 m, has sustained a stress fracture in one of her feet. Kazuto Iizawa, one of two entrants in the men's 1500 m, is suffering from lower back pain.
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