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  • Tokyo Olympic Paralympic Kotecha Soskin kind.

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  • This is the president of Tokyo.

  • 2020.

  • Saeko Hashimoto, 56 year old politician will be leading the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee after ex Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori resigned from the post over sexist remarks.

  • Here's what we know about the former Olympian how she Moto was born just days before Japan hosted the Summer Olympics in 1964.

  • Her parents named her after the Olympic flame, and she has lived up to that name.

  • Hashimoto took part in seven Olympic Games the most Olympic Games any Japanese woman has ever participated in.

  • The highest Olympic medal she won was a bronze at the 1992 Albertville Winter Games in the Ladies 1500 m ice skating race.

  • She's also the only Japanese woman to have competed in the Olympics while serving as a lawmaker.

  • After marrying a widower in 2000, she made history again by becoming the first upper house lawmaker to give birth while holding office.

  • Her policy focus has been on education, and she has also prioritized health issues and Japan's falling birth rate.

  • Hashimoto served as the Olympics minister, doubling as minister in charge of women's empowerment before taking up the post as the Tokyo 2020 president.

Tokyo Olympic Paralympic Kotecha Soskin kind.

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