The Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympic Games are continuing bad news.
In preparation for the event, after a month after the organizing committee chairman Yoshiro Mori (chairman) resigned on the 12th of last month after a controversial remark on female contempt, the general manager of the opening and closing ceremony became aware of the fact that he made a speech insulting the female appearance A setback is expected.
The Japanese weekly magazine Shukanbun-shun reported in an article on the Internet on the 17th that Hiroshi Sasaki, 66, creative director in charge of the opening and closing ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympic Games, insulted the appearance of female talent.
According to reports, in March last year, when in charge of the Paralympic Games, Director Sasaki shared with the team members in charge of the opening ceremony, degrading the appearance of Japanese popular talent, Naomi Watanabe (33), to a pig through the messenger’LINE’.
If you look at the new image of Watanabe, whose hobby is’eating’ through the agency’s website, he is 158 cm tall and weighs 107 kg, which is fat.
Watanabe, who has a Japanese father and a mother from Taiwan, is a comedian who also plays an active part as a host, actor, and singer.
Director Sasaki focused on the body features of Watanabe, which is popular in Japan, by linking the English word for pig and the Olympics for Pig and the Olympics to make him perform as a pig and act humorously. It is known that the idea was put into the event production plan and proposed.
However, this proposal was discarded when voices of criticism increased among team members.
Director Sasaki issued an apology to the effect of “there were very inappropriate expressions in my thoughts and remarks in the process of exchanging ideas for the opening ceremony” in the early morning of the 18th. He said he expressed his gratitude to the chairman of the Seiko Organizing Committee.
Accordingly, with former Chairman Mori resigning with contempt for women, the organizing committee faced an unusual situation in which the head of the opening and closing ceremonies was also replaced four months before the opening of the Olympics.
Director Sasaki, who was in charge of the Paralympic Games, took over as the director of the Olympics and Paralympic Games after the existing directing team was disbanded in December of last year as the opening and closing ceremony of the Olympics was greatly reduced due to the influence of Corona 19.