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Inside Japan’s Olympic condom factory

By Alva French
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Sagami Rubber Industries, a Japanese condom manufacturing company, is ramping up production of the world’s thinnest condom just in time for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.

The country’s “pleasure industry” is expecting a surge of interest from travelers to the games, and is planning to distribute hundreds of thousands of prophylactics to visiting fans and athletes.

Almost half a million condoms were handed out at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

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