Olympics: Tokyo Games organizers begin accepting ideas for mascots

Organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics on Tuesday began accepting applications from the public on ideas for the games' official mascots.The organizing committee held a countdown ceremony at an elementary school in Tokyo, where about 200 people, including pupils and Japan's Olympians and Paralympians, marked the beginning of the application period.Japanese nationals and foreign residents can submit designs and profiles of mascots electronically until noon on Aug. 14, either individually or in groups of up to 10 people, but the representative applicant must be aged 18 or above …READ FULL ARTICLE