http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20160204/k10010397731000.html translated by Brett Larner Coincidentally timed nearly simultaneously with reports of Chinese state media confirming the existence of a 1995 letter claiming state-sponsored doping , on Feb. 4 Japanese public broadcaster NHK , headed by the controversial Katsuto Momii , aired a news report on "Why Japanese athletes don't dope." A segment of the video is included in the source article linked above. In the first-ever survey of Japanese medalists regarding doping, research found that many of them cited the spirit of bushido , the samurai way , as the reason Japanese athletes do not dope. Among unending doping problems in the rest of the world including the scandal in Russian athletics, Japan has never produced a single athlete who has tested positive at the Olympics. Against this backdrop, a Waseda University graduate school research group led by Mikio Hibino and Prof. Yoshiyuki Mano interviewed six mal...
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