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Ex-PM to head Tokyo 2020 organising committee

Former Japanese prime minister Yoshiro Mori will head the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic and Paralympic organising committee, officials announced on Friday.

Tokyo: Former Japanese prime minister Yoshiro Mori will head the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic and Paralympic organising committee, officials announced on Friday.
Mori, 76, will serve as the committee`s president while ex-deputy governor of the Bank of Japan Toshiro Muto, 70, will act as chief executive officer. "There is a need for all of us concerned to work as one," Mori, who was Japan`s leader from 2000-2001, said. Tokyo won the bid for the Games in September, pipping Madrid and Istanbul, despite questions being raised over its handling of a meltdown at Fukushima nuclear power plant following a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011. Mori has been president of the Japan Rugby Football Union since 2005 and is still a member of the lower house of parliament. He was seen as being instrumental in Japan`s successful bid to host the 2019 Rugby World Cup. Tokyo previously hosted the Summer Games in 1964.