Mayor's ugly gold medal incident mirrors Tokyo Olympics' issues

Japan's record haul of gold medals did not make the issues that dogged the Tokyo Games go away, as a stunt by the mayor of Nagoya showed this week.After an Olympics plagued by coronavirus concerns and preceded by a scandal that forced the Tokyo Games' organizing committee to resign over sexist comments, Takashi Kawamura, the 72-year-old mayor of the central Japan metropolis, is under fire for flouting coronavirus protocols and making inappropriate comments to a 20-year-old woman softball champion.When national team pitcher Miu Goto visited the city hall in her hometown of Nagoya, Kawamura m…READ FULL ARTICLE