Hosting the Paralympics has the potential to change people's outlook before and after the Tokyo Paralympic Games in 2020, according to the president of the International Paralympic Committee.

"Japan will be amazed by Paralympians, and we'll be amazed by the Japanese people," Philip Craven said in an interview Monday in Rio de Janeiro.

"I think the opportunities for Japan through the Paralympic Games are quite amazing, both for the athletic performance, but in the transformation of society to become even more positive. For every member of society in Japan, to be recognized by every other member as equal and different, and similar. We're all members of one society, and that's what will be imprinted upon every member of Japanese society in the run-up to the Games and then in the legacy after the Games.