Tokyo 2020 organisers want composer who apologised for bullying to stay on

Record ID: 1627536

  • Title: Tokyo 2020 organisers want composer who apologised for bullying to stay on
  • Date: 19th July 2021
  • Summary: OLYMPIC RINGS OUTSIDE NATIONAL STADIUM
  • Embargoed: 2nd August 2021 07:29
  • Keywords: Japan Olympics Tokyo 2020 bullying composer music
  • Location: TOKYO, JAPAN
  • City: TOKYO, JAPAN
  • Country: Japan
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Olympics,Sport
  • Reuters ID: LVA003EMIAE6F
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Tokyo 2020 organisers said on Monday (July 19) they wanted Olympic composer Keigo Oyamada, who described in a magazine decades ago how he had bullied his classmates but apologised later, to stay on to prepare for the opening ceremony slated for Friday.
    Oyamada, who is tasked to work on the music used in the opening ceremony, talked about bullying a disabled classmate in an interview published in a magazine in the 1990s.
    Other officials have stepped down in the run up to the Games for inappropriate comments, including former head of Tokyo 2020, Yoshiro Mori, in February and the creative director for the opening and closing ceremonies, Hiroshi Sasaki, in March.
    (Production: Angie Teo)
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