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Seiko Hashimoto (Japanese: 橋本 聖子, Hepburn: Hashimoto Seiko, born 5 October 1964) [1] is a Japanese politician, former speed skater and track cyclist.She has the most Olympic appearances of any Japanese athlete except Noriaki Kasai, representing her native country in four consecutive Winter Olympics from 1984 to 1994 and in three consecutive Summer Olympics from 1988 to 1996, making her ...
Minister of State for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games: 2016, 2021: S. Abe III (R2) and Suga: Seiko Hashimoto: Minister of State for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games Minister of State for Gender Equality: 2020: Suga: Tamayo Marukawa: Minister of State for Gender Equality: 2021: Suga: Noriko Horiuchi: Minister of State for the Tokyo ...
Several Japanese business executives and employees were arrested between August and October 2022 on suspicion of bribery.Former Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics executive board member Haruyuki Takahashi was arrested on four separate occasions within that period of time after allegedly receiving money from several businesses in exchange for facilitating Olympic sponsorship contracts.
Since 1984, the number of Summer Olympic events for women has nearly tripled, to 151, while last summer’s Paris Games was the first to reach gender parity, with women accounting for half of the ...
Team Japan has a legendary lineage in women’s freestyle wrestling, carried on by Mayu Mukaida (53kg), Risako Kawai (57kg) and Yukako Kawai (62kg) who likewise will defend their Olympic titles in ...
The organizers of Friday’s opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games hope to provide relief, positivity and unity in a world increasingly beset with tension. ... with women outnumbering ...
Another controversy occurred in 2021 when Mori, who at this time was president of the organization responsible for the upcoming Olympic Games, said that women talk too much in meetings. [6] At the organizing committee meeting for the Tokyo Olympics while discussing the objective of aiming for at least 40% of members to be female, he stated that ...
Noriko Horiuchi (堀内 詔子, Horiuchi Noriko, born October 28, 1965) is a Japanese politician and member of the House of Representatives, since 2012, representing Yamanashi Prefecture. [1] She served as Minister for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games and Minister in Charge of Promoting Vaccinations .