At the Torch Relay Review Committee of the Organizing Committee held in Tokyo on 23rd, an opinion was exchanged on the routes of the Olympic torch relay and criteria for selecting runners.

Among them, we confirmed that the number of days going around each prefecture will be over 100 days in total together with the approval of IOC = International Olympic Committee.

In addition, we confirmed maximum consideration to the Tokyo metropolitan city in the assignment of days and also careful consideration to Iwate prefecture, Miyagi prefecture, Fukushima prefecture of the disaster area of ​​eastern Japan great earthquake.

The Organizing Committee will further coordinate with officials of local governments, and by the middle of next month, will hold a meeting that gathered the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Government, the President of the National Governorate of Japan, etc. We will summarize the outline of the torch relay including the selection criteria for torchrunners as well as the allocation of points and days.