Japanese entertainer Naomi Watanabe participates in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics ticket sales promotion event in Tokyo, Japan in May 2019. [사진=AP·연합뉴스]
The director of the opening and closing ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics in Japan announced his intention to resign after being struck by public opinion with his remarks in the so-called “pig makeup”, but controversy continues.
According to reports from local media such as support news on the 18th, Seiko Hashimoto, chairman of the organizing committee of the Tokyo Olympic Paralympic Games in Japan, held a press conference on the day and “accepted the appreciation of the controversial creative director Hiroshi Sasaki.” I’m putting it out as a measure, but I’m sorry for this problem.”
Director Sasaki is a famous director who received attention for such as directing former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as the game character’Mario’ at the closing ceremony of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. It is reported that during a meeting with team members using Line Messenger on the 5th after taking responsibility for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games, he suggested, “How about having celebrity Naomi Watanabe dress up a pig?”
After dressing up as a pig, how about linking the English word’Pig’ for pig and’Piggu (Japanese pronunciation)’ in the Olympics. Watanabe is a popular comedian who is active as a host, actor, and singer. In profile, it is known that the height is 158 cm and the weight is 107 kg.
This fact was made known to the world through an Internet version of a weekly magazine on the 17th. Afterwards, criticism from the Internet community issued an apology and expressed appreciation.
The Olympic Organizing Committee is in a position to prepare a successor system as soon as possible. However, it is expected that the controversy will continue for the time being as this happened more than a month after the controversy over women was degraded within the organizing committee in February. At that time, Chairman Yoshiro Mori was criticized for remarking at the Temporary Council of the Japan Olympic Committee (JOC) that “a board with many women takes a lot of time to conduct the meeting.”
Meanwhile, the Japanese government plans to hold the Tokyo Olympics in Tokyo, Japan from July 23 to August 8, 2021. The opening of the Tokyo Olympics, which was originally scheduled to be held in the summer of 2020, was postponed by one year in the aftermath of a new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) pandemic.
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