Connecting cultures,
regions and generations
to the future
Combining a live
action with cutting-edge
telecommunication technology
for an amazing celebration!
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STAGE PROGRAM
A broad selection of artists collaborates with telecommunications technology on stage to achieve a completely new style of performance.
* Seating will be set at 50% capacity or less to ensure physical distance between visitors.
TORCHBEARERS
Realizing a novel performance for the torchbearers' relay through a fusion of telecommunications technology and art
EXPERIENCE
We will set up many kinds of hands-on activities that utilize cutting-edge telecommunications technologies.
REALIVE360,
a new live watching experience in the age of 5G
About10,000winners
* Read about REALIVE360 and how to view the live streaming here
Watch the dramatic stage live
at the venue
About1,600winners
Venue: Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse (Red Brick Park)
Things to note before joining the event
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Advanced telecommunication
technology connecting the future
CONNECTING WITH HOPE stage
Presented by NTT
Advanced telecommunication
technology
connecting the future
CONNECTING WITH HOPE stage
Presented by NTT
March 25
Fukushima
Fukushima Higashi High School
March 26
Fukushima
Aizu Wakamatsu Zaverio Gakuen
March 27
Fukushima
Fukushima dance teams
March 28
Tochigi
Tochigi dance teams
March 29
Tochigi
Tochigi dance teams
March 30
Gunma
Prefectural Annaka General Academic High School dance club ANgenes
March 31
Gunma
Prefectural Annaka General Academic High School dance club ANgenes
April 1
Nagano
Nagano dance teams
April 2
Nagano
Nagano dance teams
April 3
Gifu
Adachi Gakuen Chukyo High School
April 4
Gifu
Ogaki Nihon University High School Cheer Dance
April 5
Aichi
Ohkagakuen High School dance club
April 6
Aichi
Aichi dance teams
April 7
Mie
Mie High School dance club SERIOUS FLAVOR
April 8
Mie
Mie High School dance club SERIOUS FLAVOR
April 9
Wakayama
Kindai University Wakayama High School & Junior High School dance club
April 10
Wakayama
Wakayama dance teams
April 11
Nara
Nara Prefectural Nara High School dance club
April 12
Nara
Nara Municipal Ichijo Senior High School dance club
April 14
Osaka
Poole Gakuin High School
April 15
Tokushima
Tokushima dance teams
April 16
Tokushima
Tokushima dance teams
April 17
Kagawa
Kagawa dance teams
April 18
Kagawa
Kagawa dance teams
April 19
Kochi
Kochi dance teams
April 20
Kochi
Kochi Chuo High School dance club
April 21
Ehime
Nitta High School dance club
April 22
Ehime
Matsuyama Seiryo High School
April 23
Oita
Oita dance teams
April 24
Oita
Oita dance teams
April 25
Miyazaki
Miyazaki dance teams
April 26
Miyazaki
Miyazaki dance teams
April 27
Kagoshima
Nissho Gakuen Kagoshima Josei High School dance club
April 28
Kagoshima
Nissho Gakuen Kagoshima Josei High School dance club
May 1
Okinawa
Okinawa Prefectural Kitanakagusuku High School dance club
May 2
Okinawa
Okinawa Prefectural Kitanakagusuku High School dance club
May 5
Kumamoto
Chinzei Junior High and Senior High School dance club
May 6
Kumamoto
Chinzei Junior High and Senior High School dance club
May 7
Nagasaki
Nagasaki dance teams
May 8
Nagasaki
Nagasaki dance teams
May 9
Saga
Saga Prefectural Tosu Commercial High School dance club
May 10
Saga
Saga dance teams
May 11
Fukuoka
Fukuoka Institute of Technology Jyoto High School
May 12
Fukuoka
Fukuoka Prefectural Hibiki High School
May 13
Yamaguchi
Yamaguchi dance teams
May 14
Yamaguchi
Hagikoen school
May 15
Shimane
Shimane dance teams
May 16
Shimane
Shimane dance teams
May 17
Hiroshima
Hiroshima dance teams
May 18
Hiroshima
Hiroshima dance teams
May 19
Okayama
Okayama dance teams
May 20
Okayama
Okayama dance teams
May 21
Tottori
Tottori dance teams
May 22
Tottori
Tottori dance teams
May 23
Hyogo
Takasago High School dance club
May 24
Hyogo
Takasago High School dance club
May 25
Kyoto
Ryukoku University Heian High School Cheer Dance Club
May 26
Kyoto
Kyoto Meitoku High School dance club
May 27
Shiga
Shiga-Gakuen Senior High School cheer leading club
May 28
Shiga
Shiga-Gakuen Senior High School cheer leading club
May 29
Fukui
Fukui dance teams
May 30
Fukui
Fukui dance teams
May 31
Ishikawa
Ishikawa dance teams
June 1
Ishikawa
Ishikawa dance teams
June 2
Toyama
Toyama dance teams
June 3
Toyama
Toyama dance teams
June 4
Niigata
Niigata dance teams
June 5
Niigata
Niigata dance teams
June 6
Yamagata
Yamagata Prefectural Tendo High School dance club
June 7
Yamagata
Haguro Gakuen Haguro High School cheer leading club
June 8
Akita
Akita dance teams
June 9
Akita
Akita dance teams
June 13
Hokkaido
Hokkaido dance teams
June 14
Hokkaido
Sapporo Seishu High School
June 16
Iwate
Iwate dance teams
June 17
Iwate
Iwate dance teams
June 18
Iwate
Iwate dance teams
June 19
Miyagi
Sendai Johnan High School dance club
June 20
Miyagi
Sendai Johnan High School dance club
June 21
Miyagi
Sendai Johnan High School dance club
June 23
Shizuoka
Shizuoka dance teams
June 24
Shizuoka
Numazu Chuo High School
June 26
Yamanashi
Tokai University Kofu Senior High School
June 27
Yamanashi
Nihon University Meisei Senior High School
June 28
Kanagawa
Kanagawa Prefectural Yamato-Minami Senior High School dance drill club
June 29
Kanagawa
Kanagawa Prefectural Yamato-Minami Senior High School dance drill club
July 3
Chiba
Chiba dance teams
July 4
Ibaraki
Ibaraki Prefectural Mito 3rd High School dance club
July 5
Ibaraki
Kasumigaura High School cheer dance club
July 6
Saitama
Saitama Prefectural Sugito High School dance club
July 7
Saitama
Saitama Prefectural Sugito High School dance club
July 8
Saitama
Saitama Prefectural Sugito High School dance club
July 9
Tokyo
Tokyo dance teams
July 10
Tokyo
Tokyo dance teams
July 11
Tokyo
Tokyo dance teams
July 12
Tokyo
Tokyo dance teams
July 13
Tokyo
Tokyo dance teams
July 14
Tokyo
Tokyo dance teams
July 16
Tokyo
Tokyo dance teams
July 17
Tokyo
Tokyo dance teams
July 18
Tokyo
Nippon Sport Science University Ebara High School
July 19
Tokyo
Nippon Sport Science University Ebara High School
July 20
Tokyo
Nishogakusha High School dance club Butterfly effect
July 21
Tokyo
Nishogakusha High School dance club Butterfly effect
July 22
Tokyo
Nishogakusha High School dance club Butterfly effect
At the Celebration venues right across Japan, where the Torch Relay’s goal events will be held, NTT will offer “Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay digital experience”.
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Watching the performance live
Read about REALIVE360 and how to view the live streaming here https://realive360.jp
To celebrate the arrival of the Olympic flame in April 2021, NTT held an event titled “NTT Presents Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay Celebration - CONNECTING WITH HOPE” at Expo '70 Commemorative Park (Suita City, Osaka Pref.). While the event was planned based on ensuring social distancing so that all could fully enjoy the arrival of the Olympic flame in safety, in consideration of the local situation it was held without spectators. However, by combining the energy of the performers with the power of NTT's cutting-edge communications technology, including Kirari! – the ultra-reality viewing telecommunication technology – a new live-stage performance unfolded, with all appearances and action distributed using NTT’s communications technology, enabling many people to enjoy it remotely.
Opening the stage was the NTT 2020 Special Dance. EXILE ÜSA and EXILE TETSUYA appeared on stage with elementary and junior high school students from Matsubara City, Osaka Prefecture, in collaboration with junior high school dancers from Mashiki Town and Nishihara Village, Kumamoto Prefecture, co-starred via remote video in consideration of the situation in Osaka. Big smiles were seen all-round despite this setback.
EXILE ÜSA and EXILE TETSUYA with co-stars elementary and junior high school students in Matsubara City, Osaka Prefecture
Junior high school dancers from Mashiki Town and Nishihara Village, Kumamoto Prefecture, who participated via video
Next up, Yuki Ota, Chairman of the of Japan Fencing Federation and Silver Medalist of fencing at the Olympic Games London 2012, appeared as torchbearer. Numerous "display bots" controlled through communication technology projected impressive images in real time accompanying the torch kiss, adding a burst of color to the Torch Relay.
Yuki Ota receives the flame, surrounded by display bots in front of the Tower of the Sun
The moment of lighting the sacred flame on the Olympic Cauldron
LED wristbands installed on audience seating simultaneously lit up in synch with the lighting pattern, filling the venue with color
Subsequently, EXILE TETSUYA, the final torchbearer who torch-kissed with Yuki Ota, stepped up to the Olympic cauldron and ignited the sacred flame, and the curtain to the celebration lifted. Glowing wristbands (connected LED devices simultaneously lit up in synch with the lighting pattern), originally intended for the audience, were set on each of the audience seats, creating a galaxy of light extending up to 80 meters inside the venue, and also to welcome TETSUYA along with SAMURIZE from EXILE TRIBE (LED dance performance team; hereinafter, SAMURIZE) along with the flag performers. Then, upon TETSUYA climbing the stage to ignite the sacred flame on the cauldron, the colors of the wristband changed vividly, creating the effect of flame spreading throughout the venue.
Various speakers commenting on the Torch Relay
State-of-the-art technology excites the stage while the sacred flame is lit.
Adding to the action on stage was the appearance of the “sphere display,” involving air-born spheres displaying video under guidance of NTT's state-of-the-art telecommunication technology. Floating freely in mid-air they created a striking visual display, which was realized through use of LEDs arranged in rings and spun at high speeds, producing artful effects in color due to the afterimage effect. This was followed by a live performance by calligrapher Soun Takeda, which saw his dynamic strokes instantly converted into CG on the monitor and transformed into various wonderous visuals.
Following the opening performance, to welcome the final torchbearer of the day altogether, the three organizers’ representatives, Yukihiko Nunomura, Deputy Secretary-General of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Nobuhiko Yamaguchi, Deputy Governor of Osaka Prefecture, and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corporation President Mitsuyoshi Kobayashi and Aki Taguchi, official ambassador of the Tokyo 2020 Torch Relay, were invited to the stage for a talk session.
Kicking off the exciting finale, “Technology Performance Stage” realized a special collaboration between GENERATIONS from EXILE TRIBE and NTT’s unique "Kirari!" image extraction technology, which extracts and transmits only the image of people in real-time video, which together created a truly revolutionary and unique experience. It also provided a glimpse, under an environment of restrictions on gathering during the present coronavirus pandemic, of what future remote performances may look like.
The venue at the highpoint of celebrations, amid familiar songs
Since the event at the Osaka venue was held without spectators, a new live multi-angle viewing experience, “REALIVE 360” was delivered in real time to boost online enjoyment. For live broadcasting, both the dedicated website, “DOOR” Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay Virtual Support World as well as YouTube LIVE were used, resulting in many people being able to celebrate the arrival of the flame in Osaka together as one, online.
For the celebration event planned for Yokohama on June 30, NTT will take on the challenge through use of technology so that you too may enjoy it in safety in person, or remotely.
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