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(13 Feb 2009) SHOTLIST
1. Women unveil box containing the Tokyo 2016 Olympic Games Bid
2. Wide shot news conference
3. Close-up woman holding box containing bid book
4. Wide shot Shintaro Ishihara, Governor of Tokyo, on stage
5. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Shintaro Ishihara, Governor of Tokyo:
"Japan has been in perfect peace for the 60 years since the end of World War Two. I believe that holding the Olympics in this peaceful Japan would make a big contribution to supporting world peace. Also, Japan has the very latest in environmentally friendly technology - holding the Olympics here will send a strong pro-environmental message to the world."
6. Cutaway journalist reading copy of bid
7. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Tsunekazu Takeda, President of Japanese Olympic Committee and Vice President of Tokyo 2016:
"At all Olympics Games up until now, equestrian events and sailing have been held in very remote locations. In the Beijing Olympics, equestrian events were held in Hong Kong and sailing was in Qingdao. We are going to have 95 percent of events held within an 8 kilometre radius. It's going to be a very compact Olympics."
8. Wide shot of Ishihara, officials and athletes on stage posing holding bid
9. Pan down from sign reading "Tokyo 2016 Candidate City" to Ishihara and Takeda holding bid
STORYLINE:
Japan's Olympic committee on Friday publicly released details of its bid to host the 2016 Summer Games in Tokyo, a day after submitting its official bid books to the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
The bid books were delivered to the IOC in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Thursday, and so were allowed to be released to the public on Friday.
The documents, which run into hundreds of pages and are spread over several volumes, provide detailed answers to a questionnaire from the IOC about all facets of the bids, including budgets, sports venues, government guarantees, hotel accommodation, security and transportation.
Tokyo is competing with Chicago, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro.
Madrid and Rio de Janeiro organisers submitted their official bid books on Wednesday, a day ahead of the deadline.
The IOC will select the host city by secret ballot on October 2 in Copenhagen.
Tokyo, which hosted the 1964 Olympics, said it had already secured 4 billion US dollars to fund construction of venues, saying it was best positioned to weather the global economic downturn.
Tokyo is promising a compact and environmentally friendly games, and is reportedly considering the building of Olympic-related facilities with electricity from "green energy" sources including solar and wind power.
It said 23 of its proposed 34 venues already exist and that land has been secured for the 11 new facilities needed.
The IOC evaluation commission, chaired by executive board member Nawal El Moutawakel, will study the bid files and visit the four cities.
The panel will first go to Chicago from April 4-7, followed by stops in Tokyo from April 16-19, Rio from April 29- May 2 and Madrid from May 5-8.
The commission will issue a report assessing the bids in September, a month before the Copenhagen vote.
Critics have described Olympic bid books as works of fiction because their projections often differ from reality years later.
How many of the 115 IOC members will actually read the bid books from cover to cover is a different matter, but, more than ever, financial issues will be closely scrutinised because of the economic downturn.
What's certain is that no city can match the spending of China, which invested more than 40 billion US dollars on new venues and infrastructure for last year's Beijing Olympics.

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