Tokyo Photo Gallery

A campaign to promote Tokyo’s bid to host the Olympics started on March 16 with the cooperation of taxi companies in Tokyo. Stickers promoting the bid will be placed on 57,000 taxis for 200 days until October 2, when the host city of the 2016 Olympics will be chosen. To launch this campaign, a ceremony marking the occasion was held in Daiba, Minato Ward, attended by wrestler Kyoko Hamaguchi, her father ‘Animal’ Hamaguchi, and Paralympic swimmer Mayumi Narita.
Photo: Mayumi Narita applying a sticker as ‘Animal’ Hamaguchi sends off the taxis by shouting words of encouragement: “Get pumped up! It’s Tokyo in 2016!”