Tokyo 2020 was a successful bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics by the city of Tokyo and the Japanese Olympic Committee. On September 7, 2013 at the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires, Tokyo won their bid
Skyline of Shinjuku, Tokyo. Mount Fuji can be seen in the background
Night view of Tokyo
Sign promoting the bid at Tokyo Big Sight.
The Tokyo Big Sight exhibition center would be used as the International Broadcast Center
Shintaro Ishihara
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Shintaro Ishihara was a Japanese politician and writer, who served as the Governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012. Being the former leader of the radical right Sunrise Party, later merged with Toru Hashim
Tokyo bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics
…expressed interest in hosting but withdrew their plans to bid. On September 7, 2011, the Japanese Olympic Committee announced that Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara will be chairman of the Tokyo 2020 bid committee. The bid committee held their first meeting shortly after. Towards the end of November 2011, the Tokyo…
Official portrait, 2003
Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara and U.S. Navy Commander Joseph Deleon at the Emergency Drill in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, in September 2006
Ishihara at the Tokyo Governor's office (2009)
Shintaro Ishihara (upper) and Yukio Mishima (lower) in 1956 at the Bungeishunjū Building