Organizers of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics have dismissed the director of the Opening Ceremony just 24 hours before the event is slated to begin, the latest setback for an event already rife with ...

TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee fired the director of the opening ceremony on Thursday because of a Holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998. Organizing committee ...

The director of the opening ceremony for the Tokyo Olympics has been fired. On Thursday, the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee announced that Kentaro Kobayashi has been dismissed. Kobayashi was fired ...

Does the past haunt us? At present it seems to be a reality. The latest blow to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics occurs just one day before officially kicking off. The organizers removed the director of the ...