Olympics: The director of the opening ceremony resigns after Holocaust joke

The images of Kentaro Kobayashi from the 1990s emerged in which he appears until he mocks the Holocaust.

Olympics chief Seiko Hashimoto said the video mocked “painful facts of history”.

Downloading is just the latest scandal among many who have hit these Olympic Games, reports Guardian, translates Periscope.

This comes just days after a composer left the ceremony after he turned out to have harassed his disabled classmates at school.

In March, creative chief Hiroshi Sasaki also resigned after saying comedian Naomi Watanabe could appear in “Oly m PIG” [Societies for pigs].

And in February, Yoshiro Mori was forced to resign for his sexist statements to women. /Periscope