Women’s talent’pig makeup’ controversy
Hiroshi Sasaki resigned as general manager
Chairman of the Organizing Committee “I will not appoint a successor”
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The opening and closing ceremony for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympic Games will be held without a director in charge of directing.
According to the Tokyo Newspaper on the 3rd, the chairman of the organizing committee of the Hashimoto Seiko event said at a press conference the previous day that he would not appoint the successor of Hiroshi Sasaki, 66, creative director, who resigned from the planning and directing general role of the opening and closing ceremony on the 18th of last month.
Sasaki, who was in charge of planning and directing the opening and closing ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympic Games, presented a plan for the opening ceremony in March of last year to dress up a female talent, Naomi Watanabe, as a pig. After being known, he resigned.
Sasaki’s resignation, which was criticized for insulting her female appearance, occurred more than a month after her resignation due to controversy over the controversy that former organizer Yoshiro Mori made a contempt for women. Came out.
However, the organizer of the tournament decided that most of the contents of the opening and closing ceremony were already confirmed and that it could be organized into a team system that was involved in planning and directing so far, so it was operated in a manner led by a person in charge of each field, such as directing, choreography, and music, without appointing a general manager. I made it with the key.
In this regard, Kyodo News Agency said that it was not realistic for the event organizers to recruit outside personnel as new general managers in less than four months until the opening of the Olympics.
On the other hand, a new controversy is arising when Shukanbun-shun previously reported the opening ceremony of the competition organizing committee presented to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in the online edition on the 31st of last month and the latest issue released the next day.
The organizing committee has requested Shukanbun-shun to stop selling magazines with related contents and to delete Internet articles, claiming that it has infringed on business by disclosing confidential information and infringed on copyright by unauthorized publication.
However, Shukanbun-shun side rejected the request of the organizing committee, saying that it is the responsibility of the media to verify and report that the Tokyo Olympics is an event of high public interest and public interest, in which a large amount of tax is invested by the Japanese people.
The Asahi Shimbun is strongly opposed by the competition organizing committee, suggesting that if there is a change in the contents of the opening ceremony due to a related article by Shukanbunshun, the organizer of the competition is strongly opposed by the possibility of claiming damages due to additional expenses. He said he was criticizing it as a threat.
/ Reporter Kihyuk Kim [email protected]
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