{"id":28206,"date":"2021-02-10T19:27:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T10:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/10\/tokyo-governor-to-boycott-olympics-meeting-over-sexism-row"},"modified":"2021-02-10T19:27:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T10:27:33","slug":"tokyo-governor-to-boycott-olympics-meeting-over-sexism-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28206","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo governor to boycott Olympics meeting over sexism row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yuriko Koike says attending meeting with under-fire Games chief would not send positive message<\/p>\n<p>The governor of Tokyo has said she will not attend a key meeting of Olympic officials next week, as the row over sexist comments made by the head of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/olympic-games-2020\">2020 Games<\/a>\u2019 organising committee intensifies.<\/p>\n<p>Yuriko Koike, who became the city\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/jul\/31\/tokyo-elects-first-female-governor\">first female governor<\/a> in 2016, said she saw no merit in attending the meeting between the committee head, Yoshiro Mori, the president of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>\u2019s Olympics minister, Seiko Hashimoto.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/10\/tokyo-governor-to-boycott-olympics-meeting-over-sexism-row\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yuriko Koike says attending meeting with under-fire Games chief would not send positive messageThe governor of Tokyo has said she will not attend a key meeting of Olympic officials next week, as the row over sexist comments made by the head of the 2020&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,646,88,882,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-gender","category-japan","category-tokyo-olympic-games-2020","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28208,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28206\/revisions\/28208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}