According to South Korea's "Seoul News" citing Japan's " Mainichi Shimbun " report on the 9th, well-known Japanese artist Okuno Koji last month in the local large-scale international street performance art festival "2022 Daoyi World Cup" in the pre-event activities published a disparaging Chinese people. insulting remarks. After his remarks caused controversy, they were also violently criticized and criticized. In the end, Okuno Koji was resigned from his position in the organizing committee of the festival, and he held a press conference on the 7th of this month to make a public apology.
On the 7th of this month, Japanese artist Okuno Koji held a press conference to publicly apologize for his previous insulting remarks against China. Source: "Daily News"
reported that from November 4th to 6th, the "2022 Daoyi World Cup" cultural event will be held in Shizuoka, Japan. The event is the largest international street performing arts festival in Asia, where street performers from all over the world will gather to compete.
reported that Japanese artist Okuno Koji served as a producer on the organizing committee of the festival. However, in a pre-match event on the 17th of last month, Okuno made humiliating remarks that belittle the Chinese at the scene of the speech, causing huge controversy. During his speech, he praised the Japanese ancestry, claiming that "Japanese are fundamentally different from Koreans and Chinese." He also distributed propaganda materials to the audience, which printed "a Chinese person is a dragon, but two Chinese people together are a worm" and other insulting remarks that belittle Chinese people.
Japanese artist Akio Okuno Data map Figure from Korean media
According to the "Seoul News" report, some of the participants who were present that day expressed dissatisfaction with this at the time. After that, the resulting controversy continued to ferment, and his remarks were violently criticized and criticized on social networks.
As the controversy continued to expand, Okuno held a press conference on the 7th of this month and made a public apology. He claimed that he made inappropriate statements based on wrong historical understanding. According to the report, Okuno Koji has been resigned from his position in the organizing committee of the festival, and the executive chairman of the event also resigned. In addition, in view of the controversy over racial discrimination in international cultural activities, the organizing committee of the festival will make a final decision at the end of this month whether to hold the festival as originally planned.
(Original title: Japanese artist was condemned for his insulting remarks against China, was dismissed and publicly apologized)
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