[COPA AMERICA] Citing an “unprecedented crisis” in its domestic soccer following the earthquake and tsunami and nuclear crisis that devastated its northeastregion, Japan has pulled out of the 2011 Copa America scheduled to be played July 1-25 in Argentina.

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