Tokyo Olympics creative director Hiroshi Sasaki, a former advertising executive with Japan's powerful public relations and advertising agency Dentsu, Inc. The executive creative director of Tokyo 2020 has promised to resign after making “inappropriate” comments relating to a plus-size actress and fashion designer. Hiroshi Sasaki proposed a section in the opening ceremony which involved Naomi Watanabe coming down from the sky dressed as a pig, according to the magazine Shukan Bunshun. According to Kyodo News, Sasaki accepted he had made “a very inappropriate expression in my ideas and remarks”, and vowed to offer his resignation. It is the latest controversy to hit the Tokyo build-up after organising committee president Yoshiro Mori resigned last month following a sexism row.

Source: Irish Independent March 18, 2021 09:53 UTC