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Jiji, staff report Feb 12, 2021
Amid a highly visible controversy over comments by former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, who has decided to step down as president of the Tokyo Organising Committee, there seems to have been no sign of current Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga stepping in to settle the furor.
Opposition parties have accused Suga of lacking leadership skills, and suggested there may be difficulties in his management of government.
Olympics minister Hashimoto eyed as replacement for outgoing Tokyo 2020 president Mori
February 12, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
Olympic minister Seiko Hashimoto is seen heading to a Cabinet meeting at the prime minister s office in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2021. (Mainichi/Kan Takeuchi) TOKYO Olympics minister Seiko Hashimoto has surfaced as a candidate to succeed Yoshiro Mori as president of the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games following Mori s announcement of his resignation on Feb. 12 over sexist remarks, multiple sources have disclosed. From the perspective of gender equality, officials had suggested a woman should be chosen as the new president of the committee. During her career as an athlete, Hashimoto, 56, took part in both the summer and winter Olympics a total of seven times in speed skating and cycling, and also previously served as vice president of the Japanese Olympic Committee.
Tokyo Olympics chief Yoshiro Mori expected to quit Friday over sexist remarks Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If you re not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/
Tokyo Organising Committee President Yoshiro Mori speaks in Tokyo on Jan. 28. | POOL / VIA REUTERS
Kyodo, AFP-JIJI, Jiji Feb 11, 2021
Tokyo Olympics chief Yoshiro Mori will resign after making remarks about women that sparked outrage at home and abroad and were widely slammed as sexist, sources familiar with the matter said Thursday.
With less than six months before the opening ceremony for the games, Mori is expected to announce his resignation Friday during an extraordinary meeting of the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, which he chairs.
By Reuters Staff
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TOKYO (Reuters) - The head of the world’s largest automaker joined other high-profile Tokyo Olympics sponsors on Wednesday in publicly criticising the head of the country’s Games committee for making sexist remarks.
FILE PHOTO: Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor Corporation, speaks at a news conference, where he announced Toyota s plans to build a prototype city of the future on a 175-acre site at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan, during the 2020 CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. January 6, 2020. REUTERS/Steve Marcus
Tokyo 2020 Olympics President Yoshiro Mori has incited anger at home and abroad with remarks last week that women talk too much, causing meetings to drag on. He has apologised but refused to resign.
Wednesday, 10 February 2021
Japan s female politicians wore white to a House of Representatives session to protest the sexist remarks made by Tokyo 2020 President Yoshirō Mori.
Members of the opposing Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan organised the protest, with politicians from the Japanese Communist Party and the Democratic Party for the People also participating.
According to
Kyodo News, the women wore white jackets with white roses on their lapels, an homage to the 20th century suffragette movement in the United States.
Their male colleagues showed solidarity by wearing white roses.
Members of the House of Councillors also wore white and attended the session as observers.