The Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony creative director has been fired for a joke he made in the late 1990s about the Holocaust, the organizing committee announced Thursday.
The firing came after a video of Kentaro Kobayashi, the creative director, circulated and showed him making the joke in a Japanese-language TV show. According to The Wall Street Journal, the skit involved Kobayashi, who was previously part of a performance duo, imagining that they were “creating toy characters for a game about Holocaust victims.”
.png)
.png)
