Readers in Council,
The Japan Times,
14F Kioicho Bldg.,
3-12 Kioicho, Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo 102-0094
The photograph accompanying the February 12, 2021 editorial "Olympic chief Mori's exit has been long overdue" is typical Japanese. 1) the English message "Wipe Out SEXSIST!" is spelled wrong, 2) it advocates murder - liquidate and eliminate anyone with unconventional, unpopular, or merely contrary ideas - and 3) it shows how a mountain has been made from a molehill. Japanese often make mountains out of molehills. They excel at making things more difficult than they need to be to satisfy the cultural belief that life is hard. If something is easy, then it needs deliberately to be made difficult in order to feel real.
Mori's ouster is necessary to satiate the foreign moneybags behind the Olympics. This reaction to Mori's comments might indicate that Japanese have watched too much American television and are adopting American cultural fetishes.
But I could be wrong.