Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony director fired over Holocaust joke
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Kentaro Kobayashi, the creative director of the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games was fired on Thursday. He lost his job after a video of a comedy routine he performed in the 1990s surfaced in which he appeared to joke about the Holocaust.
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