Creating Neighborhoods while Utilizing the “Power of Sports”
Eighteenth Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020
Movement toward the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games
Tennis and Wheelchair Tennis Academy to Be Held

January 15, 2020
Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.
Mitsui Fudosan Residential Co., Ltd.

Tokyo, Japan, January 15, 2020—Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd., a leading global real estate company headquartered in Tokyo, and Mitsui Fudosan Residential Co., Ltd. (Chuo-ku Tokyo, President: Kiyotaka Fujibayashi) will hold a Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020 on Monday, February 24, 2020 (national holiday) as part of movement toward the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

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

Mitsui Fudosan will host the eighteenth event, a tennis and wheelchair tennis academy, with athletes Ai Sugiyama, a former leading Japanese tennis player who consecutively competed in the Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, and Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, and Shingo Kunieda, a wheelchair tennis player who ranked number one in the world in 2018 and consecutively competed in the Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012, and Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, as the academy instructors. The event will be held at the Tennis Training Center neighboring the Kashiwa-no-ha Smart City project that Mitsui Fudosan is developing. 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 Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

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.