Opening Ceremony’s Creative Director Fired Over Holocaust Joke The decades-old joke came to light days before the ceremony and was the latest scandal to hit the Games. Kentaro Kobayashi is the second creative director of the opening ceremony to step down. Kobayashi is the second creative director of the opening ceremony to step down. Coates, 71, took issue with that, telling her at the news conference: “You are going to the opening ceremony. But on the eve of the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Games, some residents couldn’t get out of town fast enough.

Source: New York Times July 22, 2021 19:52 UTC