The regional revitalization minister plans to hold a forum in late February to listen to opinions from those helping people deal with such issues and discuss support measures.
Feb 12, 2021
OSAKA – The domestic and international furor surrounding Yoshiro Mori, president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Organising Committee, whose sexist comments resulted in his resignation Friday, puts an end to the latest chapter in the career of one of Japan’s most influential, but controversial, public figures.
Despite broad domestic and international criticism that the 83-year old Mori was out of touch and a relic of a bygone era, many within the Japanese Olympic movement and the administration of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga initially either urged Mori to stay or were reluctant to call for his resignation.
In the end, even the International Olympic Committee which had earlier said that with Mori’s apology the problem was over condemned his comments as inappropriate and contradictory to its Olympic goals.
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Tokyo Organising Committee President Yoshiro Mori speaks in Tokyo on Jan. 28. | POOL / VIA REUTERS
Kyodo, AFP-JIJI, Jiji Feb 11, 2021
Tokyo Olympics chief Yoshiro Mori will resign after making remarks about women that sparked outrage at home and abroad and were widely slammed as sexist, sources familiar with the matter said Thursday.
With less than six months before the opening ceremony for the games, Mori is expected to announce his resignation Friday during an extraordinary meeting of the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, which he chairs.
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