TOKYO—Bullying the handicapped, suggesting that a plus-size woman dress up in a pig’s costume and making jokes about the Holocaust. Those are the headlines connected to this year’s Olympic opening ceremony, normally an uplifting pageant of nations.
A day before the Tokyo Summer Games formally begin, Kentaro Kobayashi, who was to oversee performances at the opening ceremony, was ousted because of a comedy skit he performed in the 1990s about the Holocaust.
Mr. Kobayashi is the third senior member of the creative team for Olympic ceremonies to leave amid controversy.
