TOKYO — Organizers of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo said on Tuesday that they were abandoning a logo recently chosen for the Games, bowing to a public outcry following accusations that it had been plagiarized.
Toshiro Muto, director general of the Tokyo Organizing Committee, did not say that the logo’s creator, Kenjiro Sano, had stolen the design, which Mr. Sano has denied. But he acknowledged what he called the “concerns” of the public.
“We, the organizing committee members, are not experts and are not in the position to judge a logo design,” Mr. Muto said at a news conference on Tuesday.