Olympics: Tokyo Games on track for volunteer recruitment target

The 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee is more than halfway toward its recruitment target of 80,000 volunteers, it revealed Wednesday.Toshiro Muto, the organizing committee's director general, told the Japan National Press Club that about 47,000 people have completed the registration process to become volunteers. Volunteer applications will be accepted until the beginning of December.Including those who have applied but not completed registration, the total figure of applicants is roughly 85,000, he said."I don't think we will be facing a shortage of volunteers," Muto sa…READ FULL ARTICLE