Kentaro Kobayashi, who oversaw performances at the opening ceremony, is the third senior member of the Olympics creative team to leave amid controversy
TOKYO—A senior director of the opening ceremony for the Tokyo Olympics was fired a day before the event after a comedy skit he performed in the 1990s about the Holocaust circulated on social media.
Kentaro Kobayashi, who oversaw performances at the event, is the third senior member of the Olympics creative team to leave amid controversy. Earlier this week, the musical director resigned after a magazine interview resurfaced in which he admitted bullying classmates as a student.of the opening and closing ceremonies resigned in March after floating an idea to put a female celebrity in a pig costume during the opening ceremony.
Mr. Kobayashi was formerly part of a comedy double act that performed a skit in which the men imagined creating toy characters for a game about Holocaust victims. A recording of the performance from the 1990s was shared widely on social media this week and became a trending topic on Twitter. Mr. Kobayashi on Thursday said he recognized that it wasn’t acceptable to hurt people and apologized for what he said was a disrespectful and stupid choice of words.
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