Olympics Tokyo Marks 3years Before Start To 2020 Tokyo Games.

Tokyo, Japan, - July 24: Tokyo, which last hosted the games in 1964, kicked off the Three-year countdown with a lights and music show at the metropolitan government building, where the nationwide tour of the Olympic and Paralympic flags was officially launched with Olympians and Paralympians past and present named as ambassadors.Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike said the Tokyo Games are still about aid and recovery, pointing to the intense rainstorms and flooding this summer that have forced households to evacuate in areas like Tohoku in northeastern Japan and Kyushu in the southwest."We're only three years away now from the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics," Koike said. "The Tokyo Games is an Olympics about recovery. It's ironic that we are facing more disasters ahead of an　Olympics like Tokyo's, but we want to make these games a success and aid in the relief of the disaster areas."