More than 120,000 people participated in the’resignation request’
Foreign diplomatic missions in Japan such as Germany also tweeted’#gender equality’
Twitter capture of the German Embassy in Japan.
After foreign embassies took a joint action online about Yoshiro Mori’s (83) Tokyo Olympics organizer’s remarks against women, a signing campaign demanding resignation is spreading in Japan. As of the 7th, more than 120,000 people participated in the online signing request for Mori’s treatment review or recurrence prevention. The signing campaign began on the night of the 4th, and celebrities such as Ryuichi Sakamoto, the master of Japanese film music industry, also joined. In the signature, “Mori apologized, but he did not understand why his remarks were discriminatory,” he said. “People with such a prejudice are not suitable to continue as chairman.” Extraordinarily, foreign diplomatic missions in Japan also took action on the controversy over the controversy. Hashtags such as “#gender equality” and “#do not be silent” at foreign embassies in Japan such as Germany, Finland, Sweden, Ireland and Portugal in Japan, the European Union (EU) delegation, and the UN PR Center in Tokyo from the afternoon of the 5th. A tweet was posted. “The German embassy requested that it would support gender equality, and other embassy also came out,” he said. “I didn’t mention Chairman Mori directly, but the case was actually the background.” Over tens of thousands of embassy tweets have been retweeted. Chairman Mori was controversial when he mentioned the issue of increasing female directors at the Japan Olympic Committee (JOC) meeting online on the 3rd, saying, “Boards with many women take time (to conduct the meeting).” On the 4th, as criticisms continued not only in Japan but also in foreign media, he apologized and withdrew his remarks. By Kim So-yeon, staff reporter [email protected]