Twenty-four hours after the brazier is lit in the Olympic Stadium, it is no longer known who will direct the Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony. The artistic director Kentaro Kobayashi, a former comedian, was hunted for a Holocaust joke made 23 years ago and popped up from the television archives today. With the removal of Kobayashi, a bolt from the blue that is causing controversy in Japan and beyond, the excellent purges in the creative team who organized tomorrow night’s show rise to three.
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