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July 22, 2021

Tokyo Olympic Committee Fires Director of Opening Ceremony over Holocaust Joke
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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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