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–Hashimoto, who succeeds Mori, is controversial in the past’kissing male players’
After Yoshiro Mori resigned as the chairman of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games organizing committee with a female contempt, Seiko Hashimoto emerged as a prominent candidate for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, but the Hashimoto Award is also controversial over inappropriate past actions.
Japanese media such as the Asahi Shimbun reported that the review committee, which selects the candidate for the chairman of the organizing committee, has decided to recommend the Hashimoto Prize as a single candidate, and that it is expected to be elected as the new president through the board of directors scheduled today.
However, Japanese weekly magazine Shukanbun-shun reported that Hashimoto, who was the chairman of the Japan Skating Federation in 2014, kissed the figure skating Daisuke Takahashi forcibly, which was pointed out as a de facto sexual violence using his dominant position.
On Twitter, many photos of Hashimoto hugging and kissing a presumed Takahashi figure were also posted.
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–Japanese weekly magazine “Hashimoto, I have a habit of kissing when I’m drunk”
In the latest issue released yesterday, Shukanbun-shun reported that “Mr. Hashimoto’s sexual harassment is not one of Takahashi’s cases,” and a former female lawmaker reported that “Hashimoto has a habit of kissing people around him when he is drunk.”
Attorney Masaki Kito, director of the Link Law Firm, said of Hashimoto, “I don’t think it’s suitable as a replacement for former Chairman Mori, who resigned because of sexual harassment issues.”
Hashimoto was the first Japanese woman to win an Olympic medal in speed skating, ranking third in the speed skating 1,500m at the 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics in France.
–Mori introduced him to politics and called it “actually a daughter.”
Hashimoto was elected for the first time in the 1995 House of Representatives election, and is currently the 5th elected member of the House of Representatives, and has been serving as Olympic Minister since September 2019.
Former Chairman Mori, who resigned after raising contempt for women this time, gave him an initiation to politics, and the two are known to be in a special relationship enough to talk openly as “father and daughter”.
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