Hong Kong (CNN)A robot directs you to your stadium seat, while artificial meteorites streak across the sky.
Down below, hundreds of performers decked out in traditional Japanese costumes glide through the arena.
You take all this in, as a multilingual translation app on your smartphone describes what"s going on.
It sounds like science fiction, but this is the crazy vision that Japan wants to bring to life.
Welcome to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics -- an event that Japan hopes will symbolize the country"s high-tech cool, and draw in visitors.
Robot villages and meteorite showers
In 2020, the Tokyo Olympic committee, said Collins, aims to promote a similar message of hope, while also emphasizing what Japan is known for among the international community: technology and safety.
"I think the kind of hope that Japan is trying to perpetuate both domestically and internationally is that it still had the wherewithal, despite being an aging population with stagnant growth," said Collins.
"Japan wants to show that they can be resourceful in the way that most modern cities and nations will have to be in this kind of turbulent global society."
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/21/asia/tokyo-olympics-2020/index.html
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