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2018

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Creating Neighborhoods while Utilizing the“Power of Sports” The Fourteenth Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020
~ Movement toward the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 ~
Holding the Table Tennis Academy

July 10, 2018
Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.
Mitsui Fudosan Residential Co., Ltd.
Mitsui Fudosan supports the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 as a Tokyo 2020 Gold Partner
(Real Estate Development).
Mitsui Fudosan Residential Co., Ltd. is a Mitsui Fudosan Group Company.

Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd., a leading global real estate company headquartered in Tokyo, and Mitsui Fudosan Residential Co., Ltd. will hold the Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020 on Thursday, August 16, 2018 as part of movement toward the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020.

Mitsui Fudosan, a Tokyo 2020 Gold Partner in the category of Real Estate Development, holds the Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020, a one-day sports classroom conducted with the cooperation of The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Top-class athletes are invited to be instructors, and with their guidance participants experience Olympic and Paralympic sport events.

The 14th academy will be held at the Mitsui Shopping Park Urban Dock LaLaport TOYOSU. This Table Tennis Academy will welcome Sayaka Hirano, Table Tennis Women Team silver medalist from the Olympic Games London 2012, as instructor. Holding the academy in an area where Mitsui Fudosan is engaged in neighborhood creation will help to invigorate the community and foster enthusiasm for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020.

The Fourteenth Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020 Table Tennis Academy Overview

Name The Fourteenth Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020 Table Tennis Academy
Date August 16, 2018
Venue Mitsui Shopping Park Urban Dock LaLaport TOYOSU
Instructor Sayaka Hirano
Organizer Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.
Cooperation The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games
Supporters Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC), Japanese Para-Sports Association, Japanese Paralympic Committee (JPC), Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Japan Sports Agency
Special sponsorship Mitsui Fudosan Residential Co., Ltd.

Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020 events have been held from Nihonbashi, where Japan’s five major highways all started, to the Tokyo bayside Wangan area, and in elementary and junior high schools and LaLaport facilities in areas where Mitsui Fudosan is engaged in urban development. Looking ahead, the plan is to hold events in places throughout Japan, including retail facilities that Mitsui Fudosan operates such as Tokyo Midtown, LaLaport and MITSUI OUTLET PARK. By enabling direct contact with top-class athletes, the Academy will create connections with many people, starting with the children living in those districts, and will vitalize urban communities, thereby creating a legacy that will continue into the future.

The Philosophy of Mitsui Fudosan’s Urban Development Utilizing the “Power of Sports”

Sports not only improve the mental and physical health of people through actions such as “Doing,” “Watching” and “Supporting,” it also creates new connections and has the power to revitalize communities. For Mitsui Fudosan, whose Group Statement includes an aim for a community that brings affluence and comfort to urban living and targets creation of communities that get better as they age, sees sports as an important element for attractive urban development and promotes utilization of the “Power of Sports” in urban development.

Moreover, as the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 Gold Partner in the category of “Real Estate Development”, Mitsui Fudosan has created the slogan of “BE THE CHANGE” and seeks to change itself under the themes of “Communicating,” “Connecting” and “Accepting,” and to use urban development as a base that will create positive change in the people, communities and society that it aims to transform.

Mitsui Fudosan’s Slogan for 2020

The logo of BE THE CHANGE, which carries the meaning of each person bringing about their own change, has been designed with the motif of a “Wind” changing the world. The symbol painted in the two Mitsui Fudosan corporate colors conveys the image of a “Bird riding the wind and flying through the skies.” The slogan contains the philosophy of “If people change, they can change the world” for 2020 and beyond.

Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020 events held so far (reference)


Opening of the academy

Opening of the academy

The Second Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020 Badminton Academy

The Fifth Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020 Athletics Academy

The Seventh Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020 Climbing Academy

The Eighth Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020 Wheelchair Rugby Academy

The Ninth Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020 Gymnastics Academy

The Tenth Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020 Basketball Academy

List of Projects

2015

October
  • Nihonbashi City Dressing

2016

January-March
  • Mitsui Fudosan Ice Rink in Tokyo Midtown
April
  • 1st Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020
    -Gymnastics Academy/Wheelchair Rugby Academy-
August
  • 2nd Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020
    -Badminton Academy-
  • Mitsui Fudosan Presents Roppongi City Dressing for Tokyo 2020
  • Challenge Park by Mitsui Fudosan
September
  • Nihonbashi City Dressing for Tokyo 2020
October
  • 3rd Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020
    -Climbing Academy-
November
  • 4th & 5th Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020
    -Gymnastics Academy/Athletics Academy-
  • Mitsui Fudosan Challenge Stadium for Tokyo 2020 Paralympics Support Event

2017

January-March
  • Mitsui Fudosan Ice Rink for Tokyo 2020
January-February
  • 6th Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020
    -Ice Skating Academy-
May
  • Mitsui Fudosan CLIMBING PARK for Tokyo 2020
  • 7th Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020
    -Climbing Academy-
July
  • 8th Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020
    -Wheelchair Rugby Academy and Nutrition Seminar presented by Meiji Holdings Co., Ltd.-
  • 9th Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020
    -Gymnastics Academy-
August
  • 10th Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for TOKYO 2020 -Basketball Academy-
  • Kawasaki PARA Festival 2017 Summer Powered by PARA★DO !
September
  • 11th Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020
    -Soccer Academy and Nutrition Seminar presented by Meiji Holdings Co., Ltd.-
October
  • Nihonbashi City Dressing for Tokyo 2020
  • Nihonbashi City Dressing meets OLYMPIC CONCERT
October-November
  • Mitsui Offices Sports Festival for TOKYO 2020 Futsal Cup 2017
December
  • 12th Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020 -Ice Skating Academy-

2018

January-March
  • Mitsui Fudosan Ice Rink for Tokyo 2020
February
  • Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020
    13th Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020 Ice Skating Academy Tokyo Midtown
June
  • Mitsui Offices Sports Festival for TOKYO 2020 Futsal 3X3 Basketball Cup 2017
    Tokyo Midtown and Toyosu

* Items highlighted in blue are certified under the Tokyo 2020 Official programme.