As Naomi Osaka stood in the centre of the Olympic stadium, she threw the spotlight on three of Japan’s great unspokens: racism, sexism and discrimination | ErykBagshaw
And until February, the committee that appointed him was led byreported on Saturday that the 84-year-old Mori was set to return to the Olympic organising committee as an “honorary supreme adviser” despite his resignation over the comments.
“This is a much bigger issue than the Olympic Games – hopefully, it will help to change much bigger structures in place in Japanese society.” Osaka said last year that one of her earlier memories as a tennis player was overhearing other Japanese players talk about her. “Oh, that black girl. Is she supposed to be Japanese?” she toldThe 23-year-old said she was trying “to put a platform out for all the Japanese people that look like me and live in Japan and when they go to a restaurant, they get handed an English menu,” she said.
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