Kentaro Kobayashi, 48, made the joke in a video that emerged online one day before Friday's ceremony is scheduled to kick off. 'It came to light that during a past performance, used language that mocked a tragic fact of history,' Tokyo 2020 Olympic chief Seiko Hashimoto said. In the sketch, Kobayashi and a comedy partner pretend to be a pair of famous children's TV entertainers.
Freedom and freedom of opinion are gone with the wind
This is gonna be one memorable Olympics to remember ...1 incident after another
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