Tokyo will host the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee announced on Saturday. This will be Japan’s second Summer Olympic Games since they hosted in 1964. 

The announcement was made in Buenos Aires by IOC President Jacques Rogue, who will retire on Tuesday.

Tokyo beat Istanbul in the final round by a vote of 60 to 36. Madrid was eliminated in the first round of voting. Tokyo and Madrid both lost to Rio De Janeiro at the previous Olympic bidding.

The major appeal for Tokyo hosting the 2020 Summer Games was being one of the safer and crisis free option. One of the major concerns for their bid was radioactive leaking from the Fukushima into the ocean. Prime minister Shinzo Abe made the trip to Buenos Aires to affirm the safety of the city.

"Let me assure you the situation is under control," Abe said. "It has never done and will never do any damage to Tokyo."

One of the early proposed solutions is to build a mile-long ice wall to freeze and prevent the radiation from contaminating any more water.

UPDATE The Tokyo delegation celebrates as they win the right to host 2020 Games; full story: http://t.co/l5FerAQEdZ pic.twitter.com/IKUKT46gYh

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The country hopes to use the Olympics as a spirit lifter after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake  struck the country in 2011 and caused billions of dollars in damage. Paralympian Mami Sato conveyed that sense of hope by delivering a speech where she told her story about losing her leg to cancer and seeing her hometown get hit by the tsunami.

Japan already has $4.5 billion funded to host the 2020 Summer Games.

Istanbul fell short in their bid to become the first predominantly Muslim country to host the Olympics. It would have brought the Summer Games to the Middle East. Madrid was a finalist in the last three IOC votes and had 80 percent of its venues already constructed, but failed to make it out of Saturday’s first round of voting.

Tokyo is 13 hours ahead of the Eastern Time zone. The Olympics will be broadcasted on NBC and its network affiliates through 2020. In 2011, NBC agreed to a $4.38 billion contract to broadcast the 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2020 Olympics.