Students of Japan vote for the Mascots of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020!

The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) announced that almost 14,000 elementary schools in Japan – around 65 per cent of the total – have already registered for the selection process of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic mascots.

In December 2017, Tokyo 2020 published a shortlist of mascot design sets, each containing an Olympic and a Paralympic mascot, and invited schoolchildren across the country and in Japanese schools overseas to vote for their favourite set. As of today there is exactly one month until voting closes, with the design set attracting the largest number of votes scheduled to be declared the winner on 28 February.