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<ul class="summary-list"><li>A 52-year-old musician apologized and resigned from his role at the Olympics opening ceremony.</li><li>Comments made by musician <keyword id="11660891" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="keigo-oyamada">Keigo Oyamada</keyword> in the 1990s resurfaced ahead of the Games.</li><li>In 1995, Oyamada told a magazine of disturbing bullying of school classmates he perpetrated as a child.</li></ul>A Japanese musician who composed music for the Olympic opening ceremony has resigned after a horrific account of childhood bullying he perpetrated resurfaced.Keigo Oyamada, a 52-year-old producer also known as "Cornelius," has created songs that are a staple part of "The 100 Greatest Japanese Rock Albums of All Time," according to Rolling Stone Japan.Oyamada had written music for the 2020 Olympic Games opening ceremony which takes place Friday in Tokyo. That work, which amounted to around four minutes of the ceremony, will now be removed, the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee said, per <a href="https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Tokyo-2020-Olympics/Tokyo-Olympics-composer-Keigo-Oyamada-resigns-over-past-bullying" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Japanese newspaper Nikkei </a>Scandal around Oyamada arose when a disturbing account of historical bullying he gave to a magazine in 1995 resurfaced in recent days, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jul/19/tokyo-olympics-composer-keigo-oyamada-resigns-after-admitting-bullying-disabled-classmates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Guardian said</a>.According to the Guardian, Oyamada said in a 1995 interview that when he was at school he once forced a boy with an intellectual disability to masturbate in front of other school children.Oyamada also said he made the boy eat his own feces. He is also reported to have said that he trapped a child in a cardboard box.The Guardian reported that Oyamada made the comments to Quick Japan magazine in 1995, and made a similar claim in another magazine a year earlier.Oyamada apologized for these incidents Sunday, but did not initially resign."In my school days and at the time of the interviews, I was a very immature man who could not imagine how the victimised people felt," he said on his official website, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/olympics-2020-bullying/update-2-olympics-composer-for-opening-ceremony-steps-down-over-past-bullying-idUSL1N2OV097" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Reuters</a>.The next day, Oyamada stood down from his role."I made arrangements with relevant parties and submitted my resignation to the organising committee," he announced on social media, Reuters said.<h2>An Olympics plagued by controversy</h2>The Oyamada scandal is not the only controversy surrounding an Olympic Games which has been beset by scandal and negative incidents.The former president of the organizing committee, <a href="https://www.insider.com/tokyo-olympics-yoshiro-mori-women-talk-too-much-meetings-2021-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yoshiro Mori, left his post earlier this year when he made sexist remarks</a>, sparking widespread backlash.Elsewhere, there are rising COVID infections, and <a href="https://www.insider.com/japanese-call-for-tokyo-games-canned-covid-lockdowns-vaccine-woes-2021-5">a widespread distaste for the Games among Japanese citizens.</a>Earlier this week, one of Japan's blue-chip brands and a major corporate partner of Tokyo 2020, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/toyota-pulls-commercials-from-olympics-2021-7?utmSource=twitter&amp;utmContent=referral&amp;utmTerm=topbar&amp;referrer=twitterrrer=twitter">Toyota, said it will not show Olympics-related TV commercials during the games. </a>Another growing scandal is the case of a Ugandan weightlifter who has absconded from the Olympic Village, <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/6982b677-8366-45b5-8281-e9e724cdeda8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as reported by the Financial Times</a>.

A Japanese Olympic opening ceremony musician apologized then resigned as a decades-old scandal resurfaced

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A day out from the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Games, the <keyword id="6360967" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="olympics">Olympics</keyword> planning committee dismissed show director Kentaro Kobayashi.</li><li>Kobayashi resigned after a clip of him mocking the Holocaust in a 90s TV skit circulated online.</li><li>He is the fourth member of the Tokyo Games planning team to be removed for bad behavior.</li></ul>The opening ceremony of the Tokyo Games is turning into a train wreck after its <a href="https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210722/p2a/00m/0na/004000c">show director was removed over antisemitic jokes he made on a 90s TV skit</a>. In a <a href="https://twitter.com/BUNKA_taboo/status/1417843244013023237?s=20">clip</a> viewed by Insider, Kentaro Kobayashi, comedian and former director for the Games' opening and closing ceremonies, is seen mocking the Holocaust in a skit, referring to the event as a "let's massacre Jewish people game."The Tokyo Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games dismissed Kobayashi on Thursday morning, local time, after this clip circulated on social media, per <a href="https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20210722/k10013153751000.html">NHK news</a>.In a press conference on Thursday, Tokyo Olympics' organizing committee CEO Toshiro Muto said that the planning committee would "review the entire program" before the opening ceremony on July 23, per <a href="https://twitter.com/motokorich/status/1418042584493006850?s=20">New York Times Tokyo bureau chief Motoko Rich</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/motokorich/status/1418043753437138944">According to Rich</a>, Japan's Olympic minister Seiko Hashimoto also said at the same press conference that she "regrets" that <keyword id="1581035" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tokyo-2020">Tokyo 2020</keyword> organizers took "too long" to dismiss Keigo Oyamada, a composer for the Tokyo Games opening ceremony. Just this week, <a href="https://www.insider.com/olympic-composer-apologizes-then-resigns-after-past-scandal-emerges-2021-7">Oyamada apologized and resigned</a> after an old interview of him confessing to horrific bullying of his disabled schoolmates came to light. Per the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jul/19/tokyo-olympics-composer-keigo-oyamada-resigns-after-admitting-bullying-disabled-classmates">Guardian</a>, Oyamada confessed in the 90s to forcing a boy with an intellectual disability to masturbate in front of other children and making the boy consume feces.Oyamada, 52, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/19/sports/olympics/olympics-composer-resigns.html">gained minor success in the US under the name "Cornelius"</a> in the late 90s and early 2000s. On Thursday evening, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said the Holocaust joke made by Kobayashi was "inexcusable," according to a report by <a href="https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/07/6cdd05cc676e-urgent-olympic-ceremony-director-dismissed-over-anti-semitic-jokes.html">Kyodo News</a>. Per <a href="https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/japan-pm-suga-says-taking-seriously-scandals-hitting-olympic-organising-team-2021-07-22/?taid=60f92c8d4b6dea00010d8a89&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitterurce=twitter">Reuters</a>, Suga was speaking at a press conference where he gave the assurance that he was taking the scandals surrounding the Olympic organizing committee "very seriously," and that the opening ceremony should be held as planned on July 23. Kobayashi's dismissal makes him the fourth member of Japan's Tokyo Games planning team to be removed from his position over problematic behavior.In March, <a href="https://www.insider.com/tokyo-olympics-creative-chief-resigns-olympig-controversy-2021-3">Tokyo Olympics creative chief Hiroshi Sasaki</a> <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3125880/tokyo-olympics-creative-chief-quits-over-pitch-dress-plus-size">resigned</a> after it was revealed that he suggested that plus-sized Japanese entertainer Naomi Watanabe could dress up as an "Olympig" by <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3125880/tokyo-olympics-creative-chief-quits-over-pitch-dress-plus-size">descending from the ceiling in a pink outfit.</a>This February, Yoshiro Mori, the president of the Tokyo Olympics, was also forced to step down after he made <a href="https://www.insider.com/yoshiro-mori-to-step-down-from-tokyo-olympics-after-sexist-remarks-2021-2">sexist remarks</a> that women "<a href="https://www.insider.com/tokyo-olympics-yoshiro-mori-women-talk-too-much-meetings-2021-2">talk too much"</a> during a meeting with the Japanese Olympic Committee.Preparation for the Olympics proper is in shambles, too. According to a report by local Japanese daily <a href="https://mainichi.jp/articles/20210722/k00/00m/040/073000c">Mainichi Shimbun</a>, the Olympic village has reported 87 COVID cases. <a href="https://www.insider.com/us-womens-gymnastics-alternate-tests-positive-covid-19-olympics-2021-7">Members</a> <a href="https://www.insider.com/coco-gauff-drops-out-of-olympics-positive-covid-test-2021-7">of</a> <a href="https://www.insider.com/team-usa-beach-volleyball-player-taylor-crabb-tests-positive-covid-2021-7">Team USA</a> - including an unnamed member of the US Women's Gymnastics team, and tennis phenom Coco Gauff - have also tested positive for COVID in the run-up to the Games.Outside the Olympic Village, COVID cases across Tokyo continue to surge. The Olympics host city remains under a <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-lift-state-emergency-nine-prefectures-including-tokyo-nhk-2021-06-16/">quasi-state of emergency</a>, and <a href="https://apnews.com/article/2020-tokyo-olympics-sports-health-tokyo-coronavirus-pandemic-f25c9e43641954b7d4adb4a498ca645e">logged 1,832 COVID cases just 48 hours before the opening ceremony of the games</a> - a six-month high.

The opening ceremony for the Tokyo Games is in shambles, after its show director was dismissed for making antisemitic comments

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A Black drummer says he was excluded from the <a href="https://www.insider.com/category/tokyo-2020">Tokyo Olympics</a> opening ceremony because of his skin color.</li><li>Drummer Latyr Sym accused organizers of racism and claimed they did not want a Black face in the show.</li><li>Sym's claim comes just days after the ceremony's director was fired for antisemitic comments.</li></ul>A Black drummer said he was excluded from the <a href="https://www.insider.com/category/tokyo-2020">Tokyo Olympics</a> opening ceremony because of his skin color.<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/tokyo-2020-opening-ceremony-musician-racism-b1889167.html">The Independent reports</a> that Latyr Sym from Senegal was told he would not be performing in Friday's ceremony as organizers were concerned it would force them to represent a wide spectrum of ethnicities.The percussionist, who has lived and performed in Japan for more than 20 years, says he was booked for the ceremony in December and had been sent confidential information about the show.It was not until May that he learned he would not be taking part when a PR company informed him that organizers had rejected plans for him to be included. Speaking to The Independent, Sy, who has lived in Japan for two decades, said it was "totally racist.""I was told they said 'Why this guy? Why this African guy?' I've seen a lot of stuff, I've felt a lot of things, but this just doesn't fit with the <keyword id="6360967" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="olympics">Olympics</keyword>. Why should I be silent?"Sy would later see in the televised rehearsal that his part had not been dropped, but that he and another Senegalese musician had been replaced."When I saw it I just felt sad. I'm from a small island, a slave island called Goree. I lived in this country for more than 20 years and this scandalous Olympics. It hurts. I'm afraid to talk but I'm just ready to let it out. I want to share my story. I'm not trying to blame anybody, we just have to let the people know this happened."It's not about the money, it's just I feel sad and I feel disappointed about this. This is unfair. I did everything for this country. I arrived in 1994, I performed with Japanese artists everywhere, I participate in so many things. I went all over the world. And this is what I get."The opening ceremony, <a href="https://www.insider.com/tokyo-olympics-all-the-calamities-so-far-2021-7#the-opening-ceremonys-show-director-was-also-fired-13">as with the entire games</a>, has been mired in controversy.<a href="https://www.insider.com/olympic-composer-apologizes-then-resigns-after-past-scandal-emerges-2021-7">Composer Keigo Oyamada stepped down after an old interview of him confessing to bullying disabled schoolmates came to light</a> and <a href="https://www.insider.com/tokyo-olympics-all-the-calamities-so-far-2021-7#the-opening-ceremonys-show-director-was-also-fired-13">the ceremony's director was fired for antisemitic jokes he made during the 1990s.</a>

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