In another humiliating reversal over preparations for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the organizing committee on Tuesday scrapped the official logo after critics howled plagiarism.
The committee said it would immediately launch a competition to design a new logo but underscored that it did not decide to pull the first emblem because it believes designer Kenjiro Sano is guilty of any wrongdoing.
¡°We thought it might be difficult to get support from the general public¡± given the size that the issue has become, Toshiro Muto, director general of the organizing committee, said after an emergency meeting.
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