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Hiroshi Sasaki (66), the creative director who is in charge of planning and directing the opening and closing ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, insults the appearance of the talented Naomi Watanabe who was scheduled to appear at the ceremony. “Bunharu Online”. informed on the 17th that it was proposing the production to the interested parties. According to people familiar with the matter, Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Games Organizing Committee, had an emergency meeting with executives of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to discuss the response. Sasaki is expected to retire.
In February, former President Yoshiro Mori just resigned from his post due to disdain for women. As the opening of the Olympic Games approaches four months later, it will be an abnormal situation in which the person in charge of the ceremony, which symbolizes the Games, will be replaced by a scandal, following the top of the organization.
Masanori Takaya, spokesperson for the Organizing Committee, told reporters on the 17th that “the facts are inappropriate and very regrettable.” We are investigating the events, including an interview with Mr. Sasaki, and President Hashimoto and others will respond to the interview on the afternoon of the 18th.
Sasaki is in charge of directing the attractions of the closing ceremony of the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games, in which former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appeared in the form of Super Mario. At the event a year before the opening in July last year, Rikako Ikee, a swimmer who had been resting due to leukemia, was named. (Joint)