Tokyo 2020 official posters unveiled

Official posters for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics have been unveiled.

The 20 posters -- 12 for the Olympics and eight for the Paralympics -- were shown to the media at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo on Monday. They were created by artists from Japan and overseas.

An Olympic poster by cartoonist Naoki Urasawa depicts an athlete's excitement building before a competition, using the style of manga.

Tomoyuki Shinki, an artist with an intellectual disability, made a Paralympic poster of wheelchair basketball players competing.

Other contributors include Asao Tokoro, who designed the Tokyo Games' emblems, Shoko Kanazawa, a calligrapher with Down's syndrome, and manga artist Hirohiko Araki.

The exhibition of the works will be held from Tuesday through February 16 at the museum.

Officials of the Tokyo organizing committee say the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee will each pick one poster as a work representing the Games.