2023/ 12/ 8
In 2025, Tokyo will host the World Athletics Championships and the Deaflympics, marking another sports year.
We would like to inform you that the "TOKYO FORWARD 2025 Symposium" will be held on Wednesday, September 2th, two years before the Tokyo 9 World Championships in Athletics.
At the symposium, we will welcome athletes who participated in the Budapest 8 World Championships in Athletics, which was held in Hungary from August 19th (Saturday) to August 27th (Sunday), as guests, and share the excitement of sports by looking back on the tournament. We will continue to raise expectations for the Tokyo 2023 World Championships in Athletics.In addition, through a panel discussion with experts and athletes who have participated in the Deaflympics (Deaflympians), we will think about the significance that international sports competitions bring to cities.
<Updated information on September 9st>
Information on online distribution, booth introduction, and illumination of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building have been updated.
<Updated information on September 8st>
Budapest 2023 World Athletics Participation!It has been decided that Nozomi Tanaka and Toshikazu Yamanishi, who represent Japan's track and field world, will appear!We will talk about the behind-the-scenes story of the excitement immediately after the tournament.
Yuriko Kobayashi, a former Japanese women's 1500m record holder whose record was never broken for 2006 years from 14, will also be appearing as a past participant in the World Athletics Championships!I look forward to his interaction with Nozomi Tanaka, who is good friends with him both in public and private life.
*Nozomi Tanaka broke Kobayashi's Japanese record for the first time in 14 years.
Date: Wednesday, September 5, 2023, from 9:13 to 18:19 (scheduled)
Location: Metropolitan Hall (8st floor, Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly Building, 1-1-XNUMX Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo)
Organizer: Tokyo
Co-sponsor: Tokyo 2025 World Athletics Foundation
Cooperation: Japan Athletics Federation, TBS Television Inc.
Contents (planned):・Greetings from the organizer
・① Budapest 2023 World Championships in Athletics Athlete Talk Show
・②Special performance by Heaven artists
・③Panel discussion “What international sports tournaments bring to Tokyo”
Guest: Toshikazu Yamanishi (Budabest 2023 World Athletics Championships Japan Representative (20km race walk) | Doha 2019 Games/Oregon 2022 Games Men's 20km Race Walking Gold Medalist)
Nozomi Tanaka (Buda Best 2023 World Athletics World Athletics Representative from Japan (1500m, 5000m) | Women's 1000m, 1500m, 3000m, 5000m Japanese record holder)
MC: Yuriko Kobayashi (Sports commentator | Former women's 1500m Japanese record holder)
Panelist: Toshikazu Yamanishi
Nozomi Tanaka player
Yuriko Kobayashi
Yuji Takada (Deaf Athletics Participated in 4 consecutive Deaflympics | Tokyo-related athlete)
Mr. Hiroshi Yamamoto (Professor, Faculty of Sports and Health Sciences, Hosei University | Chairman, Japan Athletics Federation Instructor Training Committee)
Coordinator: Tetsuya Matsuo (Professor, Faculty of Sports and Wellness, Rikkyo University | Chairman, Tokyo Sports Promotion Council)
Recruitment for general viewing has ended.Thank you very much for the applications that far exceeded the capacity.
For those who unfortunately were not selected in the lottery, or those who cannot come to the venue on the day, we would appreciate it if you could watch it via the online streaming on the special event page below.
We are recruiting general viewers as follows.
Number of applicants: 200 names *Online distribution also available (from the event special page below)
Application period: August 8th (Friday) to August 4st (Thursday)
How to apply: A special event page will open on Friday, August 8th, and you can apply from there.In addition, if there are a large number of applicants, a lottery will be held.Please note that a notification email regarding the lottery results will be sent to the email address registered on the application form.
*Special event page (click here for online distribution)
https://www.seriku2025.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/
Exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Gallery (XNUMXst floor, Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly Building, XNUMX-XNUMX-XNUMX Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo)
At the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Gallery, which is adjacent to the symposium venue, there will be an experience corner for universal communication technology (multilingual equipment, etc. *following XNUMX items) that facilitates multilingual communication for athletes and spectators visiting from all over the world, equipment for track and field events, Photos from past competitions will be displayed.
clip EAR
Donut Robotics Co., Ltd.
Smart earphones with multilingual translation function
VoiceTra
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Multilingual voice translation app
■Contents: To commemorate two years before the Tokyo 2025 World Athletics Championships, lights will be displayed in the colors of the World Athletics logo (light purple, pink, and orange) to coincide with the 2 tournament schedule. We will perform an update.
■Date: September 9th (Wednesday) - September 13st (Thursday) 21:18 - 20:XNUMX
Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Lifestyle Culture and Sports Bureau, International Sports Division, International Competitions Division
Telephone 03-5000-7428
Email S1120901(at)section.metro.tokyo.jp
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