Japanese artists have been denounced for insulting China in international cultural activities, and now they have been dismissed and publicly apologized.

　　[Global Network Reporter Fu Jiajun] According to a report in Seoul News of South Korea and Daily News of Japan on the 9th, a famous Japanese artist, Hiroshi Ono, made insulting remarks about Chinese in the early activities of the local large-scale international street performing arts festival "2022 Avenue Art World Cup" last month. After its related remarks caused controversy, it was also fiercely denounced and criticized. In the end, Okuno was resigned from his post in the organizing committee of the festival, and a press conference was held on the 7th of this month to make a public apology.

　　On the 7th of this month, Japanese artist Hiroshi Ono held a press conference to publicly apologize for his earlier insulting remarks. Source: Daily News

　　According to the report, from November 4 th to 6 th, the "2022 Avenue Art World Cup" cultural activity will be held in Shizuoka, Japan. The event is the largest international street performance art festival in Asia, when street performers from all over the world will gather together to compete.

　　According to the report, Japanese artist Hiroshi Ono worked as a producer in the organizing committee of this festival. However, in a pre-competition activity on the 17th of last month, Mr. Okuno made insulting remarks that belittled Chinese, which caused great controversy. During the speech, he praised Japanese descent, claiming that "Japanese and Koreans are fundamentally different from Chinese". He also distributed publicity materials to the audience, which were printed with such insulting remarks as "One Chinese is a dragon, but two Chinese get together to be worms", which belittled Chinese.

　　According to "Seoul News", some participants present at that day expressed their dissatisfaction at that time. Since then, the controversy caused by this has continued to ferment, and his remarks have been fiercely denounced and criticized on social networks.

　　As the controversy continued to expand, Okuno held a press conference on the 7 th of this month and made a public apology. He claimed that he made an inappropriate speech based on a wrong historical understanding. According to the report, at present, Mr. Okuno has been resigned from his post in the organizing committee of the festival, and the executive chairman of the event has also resigned. In addition, in view of the controversy over racial discrimination in international cultural activities, the organizing committee of the festival will finally decide whether to hold the festival as originally planned at the end of this month.