Holocaust

When the Tokyo 2020 Olympics opening ceremony takes place Friday, one person will be conspicuously absent, Empress Masako. It's not an accident and it's very likely a deliberate snub to the much reviled International Olympic Committee (IOC) executives, who are residing in the finest five-star hotels in the city–while the…

The Justice Department on Thursday announced the seizure of 17 funeral scrolls, manuscripts and community records that were looted from Eastern European Jewish communities annihilated in the Holocaust more than three-quarters of a century ago. The artifacts were found through a New York City auction house that offered them for…

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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 president Seiko Hashimoto said a day ahead of the opening ceremony that director Kentaro Kobayashi has been dismissed.…

Just one day before the Opening Ceremony of the COVID-delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the director of that ceremony has been fired for a Holocaust comment he made 23 years ago. Kentaro Kobayashi, who was the ceremony's director, was dismissed after a joke from one of his comedy acts in 1998…

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 president Seiko Hashimoto said a day ahead of the opening ceremony that director Kentaro Kobayashi has been dismissed.…

TOKYO — Organizers announced Thursday that they have dismissed the director of the opening ceremony for the Tokyo Olympics after learning that he made light of the Holocaust in a comedy routine. The firing of the director, comedian and theater director Kentaro Kobayashi, comes a little more than 24 hours before the…

Tokyo 2020 chief Seiko Hashimoto told reporters that Kentaro Kobayashi has been fired.© AFP The show director for the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony has been fired over a decades-old comedy skit referencing the Holocaust, organisers said Thursday, in the latest blow for the pandemic-delayed Games. Kentaro Kobayashi made the comment…

Zhu Yaozhong/VCG via Getty Images Only days before the event, officials for the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo have fired Kentaro Kobayashi, the creative director for the opening ceremony.  According to Motoko Rich of the New York Times, organizers in Japan announced Thursday morning, local time, that Kobayashi was let go after a past…

This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Author of the article: Article content TOKYO — On the eve of the Tokyo Games, organizers fired the director of the opening ceremony over comments he made about the Holocaust, while media reported former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a…