Tokyo, Japan's Capital has won the hot race to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympic games ahead of contenders, Istanbul and Madrid.
The voting exercise conducted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) members in in Buenos Aires, Tokyo won 60 votes against Istanbul's 36. Madrid had earlier been eliminated in a first-round ballot.
The announcement was met with jubilant scenes in Japan, as Tokyo prepares to host the event for the first time since 1964.
When IOC president Jacques Rogge - who will retire after 12 years in the role on Tuesday - announced the winning city, the Tokyo delegation jumped to their feet in celebration and waved the Japan flag.
A number of them were overcome with emotion and wept, following two years of intense lobbying.
"I would like to thank everyone in the Olympic movement and we will host a wonderful Olympic Games," said Japan's Prime Minster Shinzo Abe.
The decision means Tokyo - which campaigned with the message that "The Olympics will be safe in our hands" - will become the first Asian city to host the Games twice after the 1940 games that were set to be hosted there were cancelled because of World War II.
The success of the Tokyo bid followed a personal address from the Japanese prime minister during the presentation stage, in which he allayed fears over the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant 150 miles (240km) from the city by saying: "It has never done, and will never do, any damage to Tokyo."
The prime minister's presentation also revealed the role sport had played in boosting the country in the past two years and pointed out that no Japanese athlete had failed a drugs test at an Olympics or Paralympics.
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