Published: 17:57, February 17, 2020 | Updated: 07:47, June 6, 2023
'United by Emotion' announced as Tokyo 2020 Games Motto
By Xinhua

The logo for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is seen in Tokyo on Feb 15, 2020. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

TOKYO - "United by Emotion" will be the official Motto of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, organizers announced here on Friday.

The slogan expresses the hope that the spectators, volunteers, and athletes from over 200 national Olympic committees and refugee Olympic team gathering in Tokyo this summer

Toshiro Muto, CEO, Tokyo 2020

The Motto will be displayed, in English only, in a variety of environments and applications, such as at competition venues, on city decorations and on licensed goods. It will also feature in digital media, ensuring worldwide attention.

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The three-world slogan "expresses the hope that the spectators, volunteers, and athletes from over 200 national Olympic committees and refugee Olympic team gathering in Tokyo this summer," said Toshiro Muto, the CEO of Tokyo 2020.

He also said that the motto summarizes the ideas that the host city wishes to "share with the world."

But it immediately raised concerns from Japanese media because there will no official Japanese version for the motto. The motto is normally unveiled in two languages when the Olympic Games is held in a country where English was not the native language.

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Muto said the English version is very "simple" and people can understand it clearly.

"If you translate it into Japanese, you will find many different words," he said.

A runner holding an Olympic torch practices lighting a cauldron during a rehearsal of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics torch relay in Tokyo on Feb 15, 2020. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

The Olympic rings (L) are displayed off the shore of the Odaiba Marine Park as fireworks explode during the Tokyo 2020 Year Commemorative Ceremony in Tokyo on January 24, 2020, to mark six months before the opening of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. (KAZUHIRO NOGI / AFP)