Tokyo 2020 organisers added to speculation that scandal-hit former chief Yoshiro Mori could return as an honorary adviser on Saturday when they stopped short of dismissing a report about his comeback.
Moves are under way to name Mori an honorary supreme adviser of the organising committee, the Asahi newspaper said on Friday, quoting several sources.The appointment would likely renew global outrage after Mori was forced to resign over sexist comments early this year. The octogenarian former prime minister, who has a long history of gaffes, stepped down https://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-2020-mori-resigns-idUSKBN2AB097 after his comments that women talk too much sparked a storm of global criticism on social media.
The selection of Osaka, the daughter of a Haitian man and a Japanese woman, reflects the changes and slowly growing diversity coming to a once ethnically homogeneous country.
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