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  • Opening ceremony director fired on Tokyo Games eve over Holocaust joke

    07/22/2021 1:49:56 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 13 replies
    Reuters ^ | July 22, 2021 4:42 AM EDT | Kiyoshi Takenaka, Mari Saito
    Tokyo Olympics organizers have fired the opening ceremony director on the eve of the event after reports emerged of a past joke he had made about the Holocaust, while media said former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a strong advocate of the Games, would also not attend. The latest in a series of embarrassments for the Tokyo organizers comes just days after a well-known musician was forced to step down as composer for the ceremony after old reports of his bullying and abusive behavior surfaced. […] Tokyo Games organizers fired Kentaro Kobayashi on Thursday over a joke he made about the...