After Mr. Mori, the chairman of the Tokyo Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, made a statement that could be regarded as a woman's disdain, it was found that the torchbearer in Fukushima Prefecture, who will start the torch relay, had offered to decline participation.
I declined to participate in the torch relay, which will start in Fukushima Prefecture on the 25th of next month, in the sixth section of the third day, which runs in the metropolitan area of Tamura City, where evacuation orders were once issued due to the nuclear accident. This is Shinji Tsubokura (57), who was selected as a runner.
Mr. Mori, chairman of the Tokyo Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, said last week that "a board with many women takes time" and then "it was an inappropriate expression contrary to the spirit of the Olympic and Paralympic Games." Withdrew and apologized.
On the 9th, Mr. Tsubokura also received an email from the Ori Committee to apologize for Mr. Mori's remarks, but Mr. Tsubokura is not convinced that the Organizing Committee and the government are defending Mr. Mori. As a result, I requested to decline the Holy Fire Runner in the reply email.
Mr. Tsubokura applied for the torchbearer of this tournament, which was positioned as the reconstruction Olympics, saying, "I want to work with the children to liven up the local metropolitan area where evacuation orders were once issued due to the nuclear accident." I did.
Mr. Tsubokura told NHK, "There is an atmosphere of defending Chairman Mori as an organization, and I thought that the international community would not be convinced. I was very much looking forward to running at the torch relay. Even in exchange for my dream, I thought that I had to change my thinking about Japan, so I offered to decline. "