Since 2007, the Tokyo Marathon has started to fire up marathon culture in Japan, increasing the number of fans at the event and drawing some of the best marathon runners in the world. The Tokyo Marathon joined the Abbott World Marathon Majors in 2013 and is recognized as one of the world’s most remarkable marathon events.
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The World Masters Games is an international sporting event that anyone over 30 years-old can participate in. It has been held every four years since 1985, and the 10th Games will be held in Kansai region, including Osaka, Kyoto in 2021.This tournament will have a total of 59 disciplines of 35 sports competitions.

The 19th FINA World Championships 2022 will be held in Fukuoka, a major city in Kyushu, which is the third largest island in Japan. A number of world-class swimmers will meet here and compete for victory.
In conjunction with the World Championships, the FINA World Masters Championships will take place across the three cities of Fukuoka, Kumamoto and Kagoshima, which are connected by the Kyushu Shinkansen bullet train line. The tournament will provide an attractive environment where participants from home and abroad can enjoy not only the races but their stay in the host cities through a variety of tourism and cultural attractions.

Nearly 50 years after the start of the competitions, the Badminton World Championships, the pinnacle of badminton competitions, will be held in Tokyo in 2022. Following the 2020 Olympics held in 2021, the world’s best badminton players will converge on Tokyo to decide, once again, who the best of the best players are!