TOKYO – The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee is about to get a new president — and it looks like it will be a woman.
According to a report in Japan, the job will be offered to 56-year-old Olympic Minister Seiko Hashimoto. Hashimoto, who could be named this week, would replace Yoshiro Mori, who was forced to resign last week after he made demeaning comments about women.
He said, essentially, that women talk too much. Japan's Kyodo news agency, citing a unnamed person “familiar with the matter,” said a selection committee will ask Hashimoto to take the job.
The committee, headed by 85-year-old Fujio Mitarai of the camera company Canon, was scheduled to meet again on Thursday. Hashimoto won a bronze medal in speedskating at the 1992