A talk event was held at the Okuma Small Auditorium on our campus on Sunday, October 21, as part of the Tomonsai (the Tomon Festival), a festival for Waseda University alumni, to promote the “Tokyo 2020 Medal Project: Towards an Innovative Future for All,” organized by the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The guest speakers for the event were Ichiro Kanke, Parliamentary Vice-Minister of the Environment, Isao Muraoka, Vice President/Chairperson, Olympic and Paralympic Project Promotion Committee/Professor, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Waseda University, and Tomoki Tagawa, a Waseda graduate who won a bronze medal in the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.
This project is aimed at manufacturing the medals for use at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games from consumer electrics such as mobile phones, personal computers, and other small devices.
The three guest speakers stepped onto the stage with small electric appliances in their hands and put them into a collection box.
Collection boxes were also placed in front of Building 2 on our campus jointly by Waseda University’s student environmental NPO “Environment Rodorigues” and the Ministry of the Environment, and nearly one hundred small electric appliances were dropped into them by attendees to the event.
We at the Olympic and Paralympic Project Promotion Section, Waseda University will continue to cooperate with both in-house and external bodies to support the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. We would greatly appreciate your continued support.
