The 2020 Tokyo Olympics Organizing Committee will likely be launched on Jan. 24, whether it has a chairman or not, sources said.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Japanese Olympic Committee want to launch the committee by the beginning of February after selecting a chairman by the end of this month. But the appointment of the chairman was carried over to 2014, the sources said Saturday.

The Olympics organizing committee is required to be set up within five months of the selection of the host country. Tokyo was chosen to host the 2020 Olympics on Sept. 7 at the International Olympic Committee's general session in Buenos Aires.