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Activists take part in a rally in Nagoya on Thursday following Yoshiro Mori s sexist remarks against women a week earlier. | KYODO
AFP-JIJI Feb 13, 2021
Japanese activists welcomed an abrupt about-face by Tokyo Olympics organizers over their choice for a successor to Yoshiro Mori but warned more radical reform is necessary.
Organizers had reportedly been set to appoint 84-year-old Saburo Kawabuchi to replace the 83-year-old Mori, who resigned after his claims that women talk too much in meetings sparked a groundswell of condemnation.
Published February 12, 2021, 12:38 PM
In this file photo taken on April 03, 2015 Saburo Kawabuchi, former Japan Football Association chairman and chairman of a task force to merge Japan’s two basketball league speaks at a press conference in Tokyo. (Photo by YOSHIKAZU TSUNO / AFP)
Equality activists called for more radical reform by Tokyo Olympics organisers on Friday, as Games chiefs prepare to replace one octogenarian male president with another after a sexism row.
Saburo Kawabuchi, 84, is groomed to take over as head of the Games, with 83-year-old Yoshiro Mori expected to resign after his claims that women talk too much in meetings sparked a groundswell of condemnation.