「Tokyo Legacy Half Marathon 2025 Charity」
Saving the lives of children in developing countries
Call for Donations and Charity Runners

The Tokyo Legacy Half Marathon 2025 will be held on Sunday, October 19th this year. The course will be 21.0975km long, starting and ending at the National Stadium, utilizing the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games marathon course.

“The Japan Committee, Vaccines for the World’s Children” (JCV) is looking for people to run in this event as charity runners to save the lives of children in developing countries. Participants can be from both Japan and overseas.

Bhutan, one of our supporting countries, successfully eliminated rubella in 2023.Thanks to your support, our activities are progressing smoothly.Meanwhile, in Myanmar, a major earthquake struck in March, killing more than 3,500 people.With hospitals also damaged and children unable to receive adequate medical care, measles, tetanus, whooping cough, and other diseases pose a major threat to the surviving children.We are working with local UNICEF to prevent infectious diseases in ethnic minority areas.

Every day, 4,000 children die from preventable infectious diseases.In developing countries, many children are waiting for vaccines.For details, please see the special page from the link below. We are looking forward to your entries to help us protect small lives!

Click here for the Tokyo Legacy Half Marathon special page