After resigning as’female demeanor’… 83-year-old Mori succeeds ’84-year-old extreme right’

Asahi on the 11th said that it is expected that former Japan Football Association President Saburo Kawabuchi will be appointed as the replacement of Chairman of the Organizing Committee for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. Japanese media such as newspapers reported.

However, social media (SNS) pointed out that the Kawabuchi Football Association president is 84 years old and is older than Mori, and that he usually subscribes to far-right magazines and makes suspicious remarks. Is spreading.

Yoshiro Mori, the chairman of the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee (left), resigned on the 12th, and Saburo Kawabuchi, the former president of the Football Association. [AP=연합뉴스]

Former chairman Kawabuchi, who is mentioned as the successor of Chairman Mori, who is known to announce his intention to resign on the afternoon of the 12th, is a sports “elder” who was a former Japanese national football striker. After participating in the Tokyo Olympics in 1964, he became the first J-League chairman after retiring from active duty as the national team coach.

According to Japanese media, Chairman Mori, who had confirmed his will to resign, visited his best friend and long-time colleague, Chairman Kawabuchi on the 11th, and appealed with tears, saying, “Please take over as a replacement.” I will do my best,” he said.

However, in the news of Chairman Kawabuchi’s internal affairs, an article with the tag’I oppose Mr. Kawabuchi’s inauguration’ is spreading on Twitter. Considering President Kawabuchi’s past actions, it is evaluated that he is as inconsistent with the spirit of the Olympic Games as President Mori, who spoke of gender discrimination.

Former Chairman Kawabuchi has publicly revealed his extreme right-handed perception of history. He also revealed that he was a favorite reader of the right-wing magazine “Monthly Hanada,” and praised “Nihonkokuki” by Naoki Hakuta, who denied the Nanjing Massacre, as a “masterpiece”. I did.

An article posted on Twitter by former Japan Football Association President Saburo Kawabuchi about Professor Young-Hoon Lee’s anti-Japanese tribalism. [트위터 캡처]

In December 2019, Lee Young-hoon, the principal of Syngman Rhee, wrote about “Anti-Japanese Tribalism,” saying, “I was impressed that a Korean scholar published such a book.” “It is enough to completely deny discrimination against Koreans at the time (with this book under Japanese colonization).” Earlier in January 2019, he appeared on a current event program of Fuji TV and criticized the ruling for compulsory conscription, arguing that “Korea has wrought a miracle on the Han River with the money received from the Korea-Japan Claims Agreement” and “Korea is breaking international law”. did.

There is also growing criticism for Chairman Mori’s de facto nomination of his friend as a successor without going through formal procedures. According to the organizing committee’s articles of association, the board of directors has the authority to appoint and dismiss the chairman, but this procedure has been ignored.

Yomiuri, the largest daily newspaper in Japan, criticized “It is impossible to erase the impression that Mr. Mori, who caused confusion, as a’nomination for successor in the closed room’,” and said, “The appointment of a new chairman is based on appropriate procedures, conscious of the eyes of the world It should be done.”

An official from the organizing committee said in the Asahi Shimbun, “I don’t think the world will convince the old man Kawabuchiro’s shift, like (Chairman Mori),” and “There is a possibility of a storm at the meeting of the organizing committee on the 12th.”

Tokyo = Correspondent Lee Young-hee [email protected]