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FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2021, file photo, then Tokyo 2020 Olympics organizing committee President Yoshiro Mori announces his resignation at a meeting with council and executive board members at the committee headquarters in Tokyo. Mori, who resigned last month as the president over comments criticized as sexist, has made another remark getting slammed as disrespectful to women. Mori, speaking late Friday, March 26, 2021, at a party for a politician at a Tokyo hotel, referred to the politician’s aide as “way too old to be called a woman.” (Yoshikazu Tsuno/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Ex-Tokyo Olympics chief again criticized for sexist comment

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

Japan's Olympics Minister Seiko Hashimoto speaks during a press conference at the cabinet office in Tokyo, on Sept. 19, 2019. Japan's Kyodo news agency, citing a source “familiar with the matter,” said Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, a selection committee will ask Hashimoto to become the new president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee. Hashimoto, who could be named this week, would replace Yoshiro Mori who was forced to resign last week after he made demeaning comments about women — basically saying they talk too much.(Kyodo News via AP)

Seiko Hashimoto takes over as Tokyo Olympic president

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

People walk by signage to promote the Olympic Games, in Tokyo, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. The Olympics are scheduled to open on July 23 but recent polls show about 80% of the Japanese public want the Olympics canceled or postponed. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Tokyo Olympics to pick Mori replacement; is a woman likely?

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

A demonstrator holds a placard protesting the planned Tokyo 2020 Olympic games near a building where Yoshiro Mori was meeting to announce his resignation as the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee in Tokyo on Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. Mori resigned Friday, following sexist comments implying women talk too much. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

EXPLAINER: Japan’s latest Olympic controversy

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Yoshiro Mori, center, the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, enters a venue for a news conference in Tokyo Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. (Kim Kyung-hoon/Pool Photo via AP)

Yoshiro Mori is gone, but gender issues remain for Tokyo Olympics

By Stephen Wade - Associated Press

Yoshiro Mori, the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. (Kim Kyung-hoon/Pool Photo via AP)

Reports: Mori to resign Tokyo Olympics over sexist remarks

By Stephen Wade - Associated Press

Yoshiro Mori, right, the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, bows his head after a news conference in Tokyo Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. (Kim Kyung-hoon/Pool Photo via AP)

Tokyo Olympics face another problem because of its president

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

Yoshiro Mori, the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, enters a venue for a news conference in Tokyo Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. (Kim Kyung-hoon/Pool Photo via AP)

Opposition remains strong to Tokyo Games after Mori remarks

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2021, file photo, Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games Organising Committee (TOGOC) President Yoshiro Mori speaks to the media after a video conference with IOC President Thomas Bach at the TOGOC headquarters in Tokyo. Comments about women made earlier in the week by Mori, a former prime minister, could force him to resign. It's one more problem the postponed Tokyo Olympics don't need as organizers and the IOC try to pull off the games in the midst of a pandemic. (Takashi Aoyama/Pool Photo via AP)

Head of Tokyo Games won’t resign after statement about women

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games Organising Committee President Yoshiro Mori, center, delivers a speech at a beginning of a meeting on the preparation for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics at the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) headquarters in Tokyo Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. (Kazuhiro Nogi/Pool Photo via AP)

Tokyo Olympic organizers reiterate ‘we will hold the games’

By Chisato Tanaka - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 30, 2020, file photo, a man jogs past the Olympic rings in Tokyo. In a message delivered to IOC members, Friday, July 17, 2020, online, Tokyo organizing committee President Yoshiro Mori and CEO Toshiro Muto announced the competition schedule for next year's delayed Tokyo Olympics will remain almost identical to the one that would have been used this year. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Tokyo Olympic venues lined up, schedule remains the same

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

In this March 4, 2020, photo, Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee's Yoshiro Mori, listens to questions from the media during a news conference in Tokyo. The Olympic Games are under threat from a spreading virus from China that has reached the pandemic stage. The head of the Tokyo Olympics on Friday, March 6, 2020, said organizers are downsizing the arrival ceremony in Japan for the Olympic torch on March 20 because of the spreading coronavirus. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Tokyo organizers downsize arrival ceremony for Olympic torch

By MARI YAMAGUCHI and STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

International Olympic Committee (IOC) Vice President John Coates, left, speaks as Yoshiro Mori, right, president of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, listens during their joint press conference in Tokyo Tuesday, April 24, 2018. Coates, the head of an IOC inspection team, urged organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to be more direct answering questions about preparations with the Games opening in just over two years. The advice from Coates on Tuesday came a week after several sports federations openly criticized Tokyo's preparations. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

IOC to Tokyo organizers: Be ‘forthright’ about preparations

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

Mao Asada of Japan competes in the women's free skate figure skating finals at the Iceberg Skating Palace during the 2014 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Tokyo 2020 chairman critical of Mao Asada

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers his speech during a national rally to demand the return of Russian-held four islands floating off the northernmost main island of Hokkaido, in Tokyo, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014, Japan has designated Feb. 7 as &quot;Northern Territories Day. Abe and his Chinese counterpart appear not to be bothered by the international ruckus over Russia's law restricting gay rights. Unlike President Barack Obama, who pointedly declined to attend the Winter Olympics, the leaders of the world's second and third largest economies — where gay rights are not a hot-button political issue — are going to Sochi. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Tokyo pledges to bring women into 2020 committee

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Mori heads Tokyo 2020 organizing committee

By JIM ARMSTRONG - Associated Press

Japan’s freedom from the press

Japan’s freedom from the press