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Tokyo Olympics, opening ceremony director sacked

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Another misstep for the troubled Tokyo Olympics. Kentaro Kobayashi, director of tomorrow’s Games opening ceremony, has been removed from his post following reports of his past comments on the Holocaust. This was announced by the Tokyo Organizing Committee. Reports of Kobayashi’s comments quickly attracted criticism, including from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which condemned what it called Kobayashi’s anti-Semitic jokes. According to Japanese media reports, Kobayashi referred to the mass murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis in a script for his comic act in 1998 saying, “Let’s play the Holocaust.” “Anyone, however creative, has no right to mock the victims of the Nazi genocide. The Nazi regime also gassed disabled Germans. Any association of this person with the Tokyo Olympics would insult the memory of 6 million Jews and would be a cruel mockery of the Paralympics, ”said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the SWC and Director of Global Social Action.

The offenses in a comic sketch and the apologies
In a 1998 sketch, Kobayashi and another comedian pretended to be a couple of famous children’s television entertainers, and Kobayashi himself referred to some paper doll cutouts, describing them as “those of that time you said ‘let’s play’ Holocaust'”. The comic duo then joked imagining the show’s producer anger over this Holocaust reference. This skit “that I had written contained extremely inappropriate lines,” Kobayashi, a very famous show character in Japan, apologized in a statement.

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