Tokyo Olympics fires ceremony director over 1998 Holocaust joke

Published on 22 Jul 2021 6:00:40 PM

On the eve of the Tokyo Games, organizers fired the director of the opening ceremony over a joke he made about the Holocaust, while media reported former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a staunch advocate for the Tokyo Games, would skip the showpiece event.

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