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.

"We'd like to solicit 40,000 people aged 35 and under who are eager to engage in volunteer work for the Summer Games," 21-year-old Fujita said.