New National Stadium (Tokyo) in athletics mode with the ability to construct temporary seating over the permanent track to create an increased capacity of 80,016. Capacity during the Olympic Games will be 60,102 taking into account press and executive seating areas. This capacity is further lessened for the Paralympics to 57,750 to add more handicap accessible seating. New National Stadium (Tokyo) Demolition of old National Stadium was completed in May 2015, then the construction of new stadium began at the same site on 11 December 2016. The original plans for the new stadium were scrapped in July 2015 by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe,
Shinzo Watanabe Shinzo Watanabe Shinzō Watanabe (渡辺 信三 Watanabe Shinzō, 23 December 1935) is a Japanese mathematician, who works on probability theory, stochastic processes and stochastic differential equations. Watanabe received from Kyoto University in 1958 his bachelor's degree and in 1963 his Ph.D. under Kiyosi Itô. Watanabe became a professor at Kyoto University. He was also a visiting professor at Stanford University and participated in the organizing committees of international Japanese/Soviet seminars on probability theory. In 1989 he received the Autumn Prize of the Mathematical Society of Japan. In 1983 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in