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Japan’s Naomi Osaka calls Yoshiro Mori’s remarks ‘ignorant’ – SBS News
The first Asian tennis player to be ranked world number one, Osaka has been an outspoken supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement both in Japan and the United…
Japan’s three-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka said that sexist comments by the head of the Tokyo Olympics organising committee were “ignorant” but she refrained from calling on Yoshiro Mori to resign.
The 83-year-old Mori, a former Japanese prime minister, said this week that women talked for too long in meetings.
He later retracted and apologised for the comments he had made in a meeting with the Japan Olympic Committee but refused calls to resign.
The comments set off a storm on social media…
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