The resignation of former Prime Minister Mori, 83, will further erode confidence in the organisers’ ability to pull off the postponed Summer Games during a coronavirus pandemic.
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Yoshiro Mori, 83, set off a firestorm on social media both at home and abroad this week with comments that women talked too much, remarks made in a meeting with the Japan Olympic Committee that he later retracted and apologised for, but refused to resign over.
The 83-year-old Yoshiro Mori, a former Japanese prime minister and head of the Tokyo committee organising the postponed Summer Games this year, had told a newspaper earlier that he may step down if calls for his resignation continue.
The Olympic Flame has been placed at the Japan Olympic Museum and will be on public display from Tuesday.
Yoshiro Mori, the president of the 2020 Olympic organising committee, said this at the start of a meeting with members of the International Olympics Committee and Tokyo’s city government