Kyodo News
Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama left for Copenhagen yesterday to rally support for the city’s bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.
Hatoyama is scheduled to deliver a speech promoting the bid during a general meeting of the International Olympic Committee today in the Danish capital and will head home before the IOC’s decision is announced later in the day.
“I would like to emphasise (ti the committee) that it (Tokyo) is environmentally friendly and the world’s safest city,” the prime minister told reporter at his office.
“I would like a lot of people from around the world to come and see a new Tokyo.”
If chosen, it would be the second time for Tokyo to host the Summer Olympics after it did so in 1964 to mark Japan’s economic recovery after the country was devastated by World War 2 that ended about 20 years earlier.
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