Tokyo, July 22: The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee fired the director of the opening ceremony on Thursday because of a Holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998.┬аTokyo Olympics 2020 Opening Ceremony: Date, Time, Live Streaming Details And Other Things To Know.
Organizing committee president Seiko Hashimoto said opening ceremony director Kentaro Kobayashi has been dismissed. He was accused of using a joke about the Holocaust in his comedy act, including the phrase тАЬLet’s play Holocaust,тАЭ in one of his shows.┬аJapanese Composer Keigo Oyamada, Who Was Working on Tokyo Olympics 2020 Opening Ceremony, Resigns After Dark Past Surfaces.
His dismissal comes the day before Friday’s opening ceremony of the pandemic-delayed Games.
Earlier this week, a composer whose music is expected to be used at the opening ceremony was forced to resign because of past bullying of his classmates, which he boasted about in magazine interviews.
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