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New sled project for 2018 Winter Games

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the "Shitamachi Bobsleigh" (downtown bobsleigh) project promotion committee pose for photos in Tokyo on June 4, 2014. The committee announced a plan the same day to develop a new sled for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

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"Shitamachi" plants develop Japan's 1st bobsled

TOKYO, Japan - Developers of the "Shitamachi Bobsled," including Junichi Hosogai (R) and Satoshi Kosugi (2nd from R), watch it perform a test run at the Nagano Bobsleigh-Luge Park, known as Spiral, in Nagano City, Nagano Prefecture, on Dec. 13, 2012. Young owners of some small factories in Tokyo's Ota Ward have developed the first made-in-Japan bobsled in the run-up to the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.

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"Shitamachi" factory-made bobsled

TOKYO, Japan - Junichi Hosogai (R) gets on a bobsled made by a group of small factory operators in one of Tokyo's "shitamachi" districts, at Tokyo Big Sight convention hall on Nov. 1, 2012. The bobsled is on display at the 26th Japan International Machine Tool Fair, with the group hoping it will be used at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Hosogai, owner of a metal-processing firm in Ota Ward, leads the shitamachi bobsled project.

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Ikeido wins Naoki Prize

TOKYO, Japan - Jun Ikeido smiles holding his book ''Shitamachi (Old Downtown) Rocket'' in Tokyo on July 14, 2011, after it was announced that he won the Naoki Prize for seasoned writers. Ikeido, a 48-year-old former bank employee, received the award for the novel about a small factory trying to win an order to manufacture a key component for a domestically produced rocket.

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Jamaica to use Japanese "shitamachi bobsleigh" at 2018 Olympics

Chris Stokes (3rd from L, back), president of the Jamaica Bobsleigh Federation, poses with members of Japan's "Shitamachi Bobsleigh" project group during a press conference in Nagano, central Japan, on Jan. 17, 2016. They agreed that the "Shitamachi Bobsleigh" developed by small factories in Tokyo's Ota Ward will be provided for free to the Jamaican bobsleigh team with the aim of taking part in the 2018 Winter Olympics. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Downtown bobsled" not to be used in 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics

Junichi Hosogai (R), general manager of the "Shitamachi Bobsled" (downtown bobsled) project team, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 18, 2015, after it was informed by the Japan Bobsleigh-Luge and Skelton Federation that it will not use the bobsled developed by the team, comprising a number of small factories in the Japanese capital's Ota Ward, in the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ikeido wins Naoki Prize

TOKYO, Japan - Jun Ikeido smiles holding his book ''Shitamachi (Old Downtown) Rocket'' in Tokyo on July 14, 2011, after it was announced that he won the Naoki Prize for seasoned writers. Ikeido, a 48-year-old former bank employee, received the award for the novel about a small factory trying to win an order to manufacture a key component for a domestically produced rocket. (Kyodo)