On July 22nd, 20 18, BOCOG officially announced the name of the mascot of the 2020 Olympic Games on its official website. Among them, the blue mascot named Miraitowa is the mascot of Tokyo Olympic Games, and the cherry mascot named Someity is the mascot of Tokyo Paralympic Games.
The name something comes from Japanese "Inoue Yoshino" and English phrase "So powerful". "Yoshino Inoue" is a popular cherry blossom variety, and "so powerful" is translated as omnipotent. Someity has strong psychological and physical strength, representing those Paralympic athletes who overcome all difficulties and redefine possibilities.
Origin of mascot selection for Tokyo Olympic Games;
20 17, 17 in February, BOCOG announced three final candidate works selected from more than 2,000 publicly collected works, each containing the mascots of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and conducted a public opinion survey in Japanese primary schools by class.
In about three months, about 200,000 classes in more than 1.6 million schools participated in the voting, accounting for about 75% of the number of primary schools in Japan. This is also the first time in the history of the Olympic Games that primary school students are allowed to choose Olympic mascots.
In the end, the No.1 work designed by designer Taniguchi Ryo of Fukuoka Prefecture in Japan won more than half of the votes and won.
Refer to the above? Baidu encyclopedia-Miraitowa