Japan is to lodge an official complaint about a cartoon in a French newspaper that links the Fukushima nuclear disasterwith Tokyo's successful bid to host the 2020 Olympics, reports The Guardian.
The cartoon, which appeared on Wednesday in the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaine, shows two sumo wrestlers – each with an extra arm or leg – with the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the background.
At the edge of the panel, a TV announcer dressed in a hazardous materials suit says: "Marvellous! Thanks to Fukushima, sumo is now an Olympic sport."
A second image features two people in protective clothing conducting radiation tests by the side of a pool, along with the caption: "There is already a pool in Fukushima for the Olympics."
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded the 2020 Games to Tokyo last weekend, despite growing concerns about the safety of the Fukushima plant.
In the runup to the IOC vote, reports emerged of leaks of highly contaminated water from storage tanks at the plant. In a separate incident last month, the facility's operator, Tokyo Electric Power, admitted that about 300 tonnes of radioactive groundwater a day was flowing into the Pacific.
Read more of this report from The Guardian.