A college student in Tokyo has a lofty Olympic goal: to recruit half the 80,000 volunteers that the organizing committee for the 2020 Games and Paralympics hopes to enlist.
In March, Kentaro Fujita, then a sophomore at Tokyo’s Senshu University, and four others established nonprofit Wakamono Hojin (Corporation for the Young) Japanese TEAM to promote the involvement of young people, especially students, for the games.
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