On July 17, 2015, Prime Minister Abe Shinzō announced that the plan for the New National Stadium in Tokyo would be scrapped and started again from a blank sheet.
A verification committee submitted its report on September 24, 2015. An evaluation by the Ministry of Education that cites the report names among the causes the harm of a “collective decision-making system that led to the cost increase.” It also finds that authority and responsibility had become unclear, and that those involved lacked a sense of ownership.