Japan’s minister responsible for the OLYMPICS in Tokyo 2020, Yoshitaka Sakurada, entered Wednesday back.

According to Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, stop Sakurada because of the “hurtful” statements about the victims from the earthquake and tsunami that hit the country in 2011.

The typing of several international news agencies.

Supposedly said the now former minister earlier on Wednesday, that the female party member Hinako Takahashi from one of the affected areas was more important than reconstruction.

– I accept his termination. I apologize for his remark to the people from the disaster-stricken areas, says Shinzo Abe, according to AFP.

About 18,000 people lost their lives by the natural disasters in 2011, and more than 50,000 have not been able to return to their places of origin.

One of the main themes at the OLYMPIC games in 2020 is precisely the reconstruction of the areas destroyed by the violent events.

last month drew the president of the Japan Olympic Committee (JOC), Tsunekazu Takeda, back at the time he was investigated for corruption in connection with the OLYMPICS-hosting.

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