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A Notoriously Hateful Japanese Composer’s Music Just Opened the Tokyo Olympics

FUNERAL MARCH

In yet another tone-deaf move, organizers used a song by a virulently homophobic and ultranationalist figure to open the Olympics—despite many warnings it might go over very badly.

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REUTERS