{"id":28265,"date":"2021-02-11T13:29:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T04:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/11\/tokyo-2020-president-yoshiro-mori-expected-to-resign-comments-about-women"},"modified":"2021-02-11T13:29:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T04:29:52","slug":"tokyo-2020-olympics-president-expected-to-resign-over-sexist-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28265","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo 2020 Olympics president expected to resign over sexist comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yoshiro Mori had insisted for days he would not quit but Japanese media say he will step down amid a growing tide of anger over his remarks<\/p>\n<p>The president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/olympic-games-2020\">Tokyo 2020 Olympics<\/a> organising committee, Yoshiro Mori, is expected to resign after derogatory comments he made about women caused an international uproar less than six months before the Games are due to open.<\/p>\n<p>Mori, who has led the organising committee since 2014, will step down after insisting for days that he would not resign, the Fuji News Network reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/11\/tokyo-2020-president-yoshiro-mori-expected-to-resign-comments-about-women\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoshiro Mori had insisted for days he would not quit but Japanese media say he will step down amid a growing tide of anger over his remarksThe president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics organising committee, Yoshiro Mori, is expected to resign after derogato&#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":[41,88,342,203,882,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-olympic-games","category-sport","category-tokyo-olympic-games-2020","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28265","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=28265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28266,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28265\/revisions\/28266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}