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Suntory to set up fund to support disabled in sports

SENDAI, Japan - Japanese Paralympian Mami Sato gives a press conference on July 29, 2014, following a courtesy visit to Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai over a decision by her employer Suntory Holdings Ltd. to create a fund to support sports for disabled people in the region damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011.

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Tour de Tohoku 2014 on promotion

TOKYO, Japan - Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (front R) poses for the photo with ambassadors of Tour de Tohoku 2014, an event to assist the reconstruction of Tohoku region devastated by 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster, in Tokyo on June 10, 2014. The ambassadors are model Karen Michibata (2nd from front R), track and field Paralympian Mami Sato (2nd from L front), and former footballer Tetsuo Nakanishi (front L).

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Japan's Sato runs in Sochi Paralympics torch relay

SOCHI, Russia - Mami Sato, a Japanese Paralympian who lost one of her legs to cancer, smiles as she runs a leg of the Sochi Paralympics torch relay on March 6, 2014, in the Russian resort town.

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Last trading day of 2013

TOKYO, Japan - Mami Sato (L), a Paralympian who contributed to Tokyo's successful bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, rings the closing bell by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a ceremony at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo's Nihombashi area on Dec. 30, 2013, the last trading day of the year.

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Last trading day of 2013

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is pictured after ringing the closing bell during a ceremony at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo's Nihombashi area on Dec. 30, 2013, the last trading day of the year. Mami Sato, a Paralympian who contributed to Tokyo's successful bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, is to the right.

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Last trading day of 2013

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) claps with others during a ceremony at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo's Nihombashi area on Dec. 30, 2013, marking the last trading day of the year. To the right is Mami Sato, a Paralympian who contributed to Tokyo's successful bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympic Games.

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Tokyo wins 2020 Olympic bid

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - (From L) Olympic silver medal-winning fencer Yuki Ota, newscaster Christel Takigawa, Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose, Tsunekazu Takeda, president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Bid Committee, Masato Mizuno, CEO of the committee, and Mami Sato, a Paralympian in athletics, are seen at a press conference in Buenos Aires on Sept. 7, 2013, after Tokyo was chosen as the host city for the Olympic and Paralympic Games at the International Olympic Committee's general session, in Buenos Aires on Sept. 7, 2013, beating Istanbul and Madrid.

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Tokyo wins 2020 Olympic bid

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Mami Sato, a Paralympian in athletics, makes a presentation for Tokyo's bid to host the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games at the International Olympic Committee's general session in Buenos Aires on Sept. 7, 2013. Tokyo was chosen as the host city later by the committee.

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Amputee runners find 'god' in 57-year-old man

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Mami Sato making a leap in the women's long jump during the 2012 Paralympics in London.

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Mitsui Fudosan president poses after inking "Gold Partner" contract

Masanobu Komoda (2nd from L), president of Mitsui Fudosan Co., poses for photos after signing an agreement to make the real estate company a "Gold Partner," the highest-level domestic sponsor of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, in Tokyo on April 20, 2015. Women standing with him (from L) are retired gymnast Rie Tanaka, actress Yu Aoi and Paralympic athlete Mami Sato. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

Mami Sato, who heads HERO, a hair donation organization based in Sendai, poses for a photo in Sendai on May 22, 2020, with hair yet to be made into a wig for cancer children. Hair donated to the northeastern Japan-based nonprofit group is now unable to be sent to wig manufacturers in China for processing due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo