Popular Japanese talent, Naomi Watanabe [출처 : 소속사 웹사이트]
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympic Games, which are in crisis due to Corona 19, are again controversial after the organizer’s remarks against women.
After a month after resigning on the 12th of last month, after controversy, the organizer of the Mori Yoshiro convention, the general manager of the opening and closing ceremony decided to withdraw by insulting the female appearance.
The Japanese weekly magazine Shukanbun-shun reported in an online article yesterday that the 66-year-old Creative Director Sasaki Hiroshi, who is in charge of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympics, insulted the appearance of a female talent.
According to reports, in March last year, Sasaki, who was in charge of the Paralympic Games, shared a plan for the opening ceremony of the 33-year-old Japanese woman’s popular talent, Naomi Watanabe, degrading the appearance of 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 158cm tall and weighs 107kg.
With a Japanese father and a mother from Taiwan, Watanabe is a comedian who also plays an active part as a host, actor, and singer.
In relation to the appearance of Watanabe, which is popular in Japan, Director Sasaki is an event in which she dressed up as a pig and acted humorously by linking “Pig” meaning pig in English and “Piggu”, the Japanese pronunciation of the Olympics. It is known that the proposal was put in the production plan.
However, this proposal was discarded as voices of criticism increased among team members.
Director Sasaki posted an apology to the effect of “there was a very inappropriate expression in the contents of my thoughts and remarks in the process of exchanging ideas for the opening ceremony” early this morning, as public opinion criticized mainly on the Internet due to the reports of Shukanbunshun, and thanked the chairman of the organizing committee He said he had delivered.
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 replaced with the opening and closing ceremonies about four months before the opening of the Olympics.
Originally in charge of the Paralympic Games, Director Sasaki took over the Olympic and Paralympic Games in December last year as the opening and closing ceremony of the Olympics was drastically reduced due to the impact of Corona 19.
Born in Japan’s largest advertising company “Dentsu,” he made a surprise appearance by then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as Mario of “Super Mario Bros.”, a game character representing Japan, at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games closing ceremony. There are enemies.
Japanese media reported that Hashimoto, the new chairman of the organizing committee, would shape “diversity and harmony” through the Tokyo Olympics.
Former Chairman Mori resigned after 9 days of excommunication when he remarked at the Japan Olympic Committee meeting held on February 3, “The board of directors with many women takes time to meet.”