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Tokyo Olympic Committee Fires Director of Opening Ceremony over Holocaust Joke

HeadlineJul 22, 2021

The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee has fired the director of Friday’s opening ceremony for once joking about the Holocaust. The decision was made after a video emerged from 1998, when the director, Kentaro Kobayashi, was working on a comedy show.

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