A giant mural of Tokyo 2025 World Athletics Championship athlete Haruka Kitaguchi is unveiled in Ginza
OVER ALLs Co., Ltd. Press Release: September 12, 2025 A huge mural of Tokyo 2025 IAAF World Championships athlete Shinka Kitaguchi is unveiled in Ginza Art project in five locations in Tokyo, the fourth being the central display window of SEIKO HOUSE Over alls Inc., a mural art company (headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Taketo Akazawa; hereinafter referred to as “OVER ALLs”), has created a mural for SEIKO HOUSE as the fourth installment of its Tokyo IAAF World Athletics Art Project. The mural features Haruka Kitaguchi, a women’s javelin thrower who will be competing in the Tokyo 2025 IAAF World Athletics
Championships, and the field event board that Seiko Group Corporation (hereinafter referred to as “Seiko”) will use at the event. Image
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performance. These efforts accumulate into records, which tell a story that goes beyond mere numbers. Seiko, which has supported athletes through its field event boards, has carved these stories into records and memories for people and continued to share them with the world. This mural uses the yellow color symbolizing Seiko’s timing and measurement equipment as a base to depict a moment in the story of an athlete continuing to challenge himself toward the future. Overview of murals SEIKO HOUSE Address: 4-5-11 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo Posting period: September 8, 2025 (Monday) to September 21, 2025 (Sunday) Until 7 PM Size: W6.0m x H2.7m Production time: 3 days Art materials used: paint, spray paint
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/34561/44/34561-44-012ed846e96d40492d4632ebfe1377b9-3900×2926.jpg Art project overview Project Name Tokyo World Athletics Art Project Period/Location ▼Akasaka Sacas Square (5-3-6 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo) Display Period: Thursday, August 14th – Saturday, September 27th Featured athletes: Shinka Kitaguchi (javelin throw), Armand Duplantis (pole vault), Noah Lyles (sprints), Sydney McLaughlin (400m), Karsten Warholm (400m hurdles), Yaroslava Mavcik (high jump), Faith Kipyegon (1500m, 5000m) ▼ASICS FLAGSHIP HARAJUKU (1F Jingumae Tower Building, 1-5-8 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo) Display period: August 23rd (Sat) – September 21st (Sun) Featured athletes: Shinka Kitaguchi (javelin throw), Yoshihide Kiryu (sprint), Rashid Muratake (110m hurdles) ▼ASICS TOKYO GINZA (NTT Ginza Building 1F, 2-7 Ginza 8-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo) Display Period: Saturday, August 30th – Sunday, September 21st Featured Athletes: Abdul Hakim Sani Brown (Sprint), Nozomi Tanaka (1500m & 5000m), Kana Kobayashi (Marathon) ▼SEIKO HOUSE (4-5-11 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo) Posting Period: Monday, September 8th – Sunday, September 21st, 7:00 PM Featured Athlete: Shinka Kitaguchi (Javelin Throw) ▼Honda Welcome Plaza Aoyama (currently closed) (2-1-1 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo) Display period: September 10th (Wed) – September 21st (Sun) Featured athletes: Naoki Koyama (marathon), Nagiya Mori (marathon) Production artist: OVER ALLs
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/34561/44/34561-44-e5b292087582788cde1f30c67f7dd2e8-3566×2220.jpg President Taketo Akazawa (pictured left) is primarily responsible for planning and producing the project. The main artist, painter Yuki Yamamoto (pictured right), was the “ART BATTLE JAPAN 2018” champion. Aiming to “transform people into artists through the power of murals,” he continues to create a variety of works across the country. When creating murals, he researches the history and background of each project to the extent that clients are surprised, and conducts interviews to draw out their thoughts. The murals highlight the message that companies want to convey to society, as well as the history that individuals working in those organizations have walked. His representative works include the mural of pitcher Yu Darvish and Shohei Ohtani at Escon Field Hokkaido, and the “FUTABA Art District” mural series depicting the faces of the residents of Futaba Town, Fukushima, which has begun the road to recovery after the damage caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake. He has also appeared in many media outlets, including on “Jonetsu Tairiku,” “news zero,” “Sunday Japon,” and “WBS (World Business Satellite).” OVER ALLs Co., Ltd. Address: 2-26-35 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo President and CEO: Taketo Akazawa Web: http://www.overalls.jp Instagram:
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