During an online executive meeting on Feb. 3, former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, in his capacity as president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics organizing committee, made a contemptuous comment regarding women when asked about his committee¡¯s plan to increase the number of female board members to more than 40% of the total.
The New York Times began reporting with a fact-based story that ¡°On Twitter, users quickly began calling for Mori to resign,¡± while others ¡°suggested Mori¡¯s age, and his outdated attitude, were the real problem¡± or ¡°expressed dismay¡± that ¡°no one in the meeting had objected in the moment.¡±
On Feb. 9, however, The Times carried an article with a misleading headline of ¡°Olympics Chief Said Sorry for Demeaning Women. In Japan, That¡¯s Often Enough.¡± The article also said, ¡°Yoshiro Mori¡¯s resistance to calls for his resignation shows the power of a male-dominated old guard that is mostly unaccountable to public opinion.¡±
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