Cov kev sib tw muaj nyob rau ntawm qhov loj loj: ua ntej txhua tus, Cov neeg txais khoom plig Pritzker thiab tus yeej khoom kub ntawm International Union of Architects, RIBA, AIA tau raug caw tuaj koom. Tus sawv cev yog Pab Pawg Sib Tw ntawm Kev Ua Si ntawm Nyij Pooj, pawg tswj hwm tau coj los ntawm Tadao Ando, thiab suav nrog Norman Foster thiab Richard Rogers.
Pawg neeg tswj tau xaiv 11 tawm ntawm 46 qhov haujlwm xa mus rau kev sib tw, uas, hauv nws qhov kev xav, muaj lub peev xwm ntawm "tiam tshiab" architecture. Cov neeg suav daws xws li Zaha Hadid, Toyo Ito, UNStudio, SANAA, gmp.
Lub chaw ntau pob yuav hloov chaw uas tau teeb tsa hauv Tokyo rau xyoo 1964 kev sib tw. Nws qhov kev tsim kho yuav ua tiav nyob rau xyoo 2018, thiab xyoo 2019 nws yuav npaj Rugby World Cup qhov sib tw. Tab sis cov neeg npaj cov kev sib tw vam tias Nyij Pooj yuav tuav 2020 Olympic Games, uas yuav tau muaj chaw sib tw tshiab. Lub chaw ntaus pob tseem yuav siv rau kev ncaws pob thiab ncaws pob cov kev sib tw, kev ua yeeb yam thiab lwm yam kev sib tw thiab kev sib tw.
Lub luag haujlwm tseem ceeb ntawm kev sib tw yog nrhiav qhov project uas tshaj li cov qauv niaj hnub rau kev ua kis las ncaws pob thiab muaj qhov tshiab tshiab rau lawv txoj kev tsim. Txuas ntxiv rau cov nqe lus luv luv rau qhov kev nqis tes ua txoj haujlwm, ntu kev nqaim rau lub chaw ntau pob rau 80,000 tus neeg saib, qhov xav tau hloov chaw ntawm lub ru tsev thiab sawv (kom cov chaw muaj kev haum rau ntau yam xwm txheej thiab txhua qhov xwm txheej huab cua), ib puag ncig kev xav tau, cov ntsiab lus teb (qhov sib thooj rau Meiji thaj neeb) kuj tseem nyuaj.
