Despite a spectacular opening ceremony, just 24 hours before the opening of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics the opening ceremony’s director, Kentarō Kobayashi, was fired from his position for historic insensitive comments made during the 1990s. Kobayashi was part of a comedy duo, Rahmens, and in the late 1990s made a joke about the Holocaust that caused controversy online in the run up to the Olympic ceremony. He was the latest of a string of sackings of famous talents working for the event during the run-up to the Olympics, for historical or contemporary problematic comments. Has cancel culture made it to Japan?

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