Tokyo formally joined the race to host the Olympics for a second time on Wednesday after the city's metropolitan assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution to bid for the 2016 Games.
Last month, Sapporo followed Nagoya's earlier decision to rule itself out of the running, leaving just the capital city and Fukuoka, on the southern island of Kyushu, as the only two cities in contention.
The Japanese Olympics Committee welcomed Tokyo's announcement.
"The JOC is delighted," committee chairman Tsunekazu Takeda told reporters. "We would like Tokyo to do their best to produce a wonderful plan."
The JOC is set to choose the country's official bid city in August and Takeda is hoping to see a spirited competition.
"The aim is not to win domestically but to beat the candidates from overseas. We look forward to seeing a high-level bid," he added.
Japan last hosted the Summer Games in Tokyo in 1964.
"For Tokyo to host the Olympics again after half a century would be an opportunity to demonstrate our strong desire for world peace and it would also be a chance to create a mature, safe and environmentally friendly city," the city's resolution said, according to the Tokyo assembly's Web site.
Sapporo, which hosted the 1972 Winter Olympics, withdrew citing the burden of raising around $2.1 billion of the estimated total cost of $15.2 billion of hosting the Games.
Do you think tokyo will host 2016 games?
and do you have information about other candidates? for example Chicago,Madrid,Moscow,LA,Dubai,Toronto,Cape Town etc....
- my tokyo photo thread :
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=319973>
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