Today we have a guest post from Kei Ikuta of the firm Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. Kei Ikuta is a Japanese litigation lawyer specialising mainly in employment law, competition law and sports law.

The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (“TOC”) have decided to withdraw its Olympic logo (picture on the right).

On 24 July 2015, the logo was announced as having beaten 104 other candidates’ designs to be the 2020 Olympic logo.  TOC, making the announcement on 1 September 2015, have advised that they would start a new competition to choose a new Olympic logo.  (more…)