kentaro kobayashi

A comment made in 1998 has forced the director of the opening ceremony to resign. This happened soon after a composer stepped down for being a bully in school. To say that one day before Friday’s opening ceremony, Tokyo is struggling to…

Kentaro Kobayashi was accused of using a joke about the Holocaust in his comedy act, including the phrase “Let’s play Holocaust”. The Tokyo Olympic organising committee fired the director of the opening ceremony on July 22 because of a…

TOKYO: One of the strangest Olympics in history will get off to an equally unusual start when the Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony takes place in front of thousands of empty seats on Friday. Just 1,000 dignitaries will be present at the…