TOKYO – Derogatory comments about women made earlier in the week by Yoshiro Mori, the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee and a former prime minister, could force him to resign.
It's one more problem the postponed Tokyo Olympics don't need as organizers and the International Olympic Committee try to pull off the games in the midst of a pandemic.
They are to open on July 23. The organizing committee said Thursday it did not have a statement but expected to have one later in the day.
In an on-line meeting of the Japanese Olympic Committee board of directors earlier in the week, Mori was reported by the daily newspaper Asahi Shimbun saying women talk too much in meetings.