Japan’s three-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka on Saturday said that sexist comments by the head of the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee were “ignorant” but she refrained from calling on Yoshiro Mori to resign.
The 83-year-old Mori, a former Japanese prime minister, said this week that women talked for too long in meetings. He later retracted and apologized for the comments he had made in a meeting with the Japan Olympic Committee but refused calls to resign.
The comments set off a storm on social media at home and abroad, with a petition calling for action against Mori gathering tens of thousands of signatures on Friday, a day after its launch by Japanese activists.
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