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Abe impersonated ‘Super Mario’ to promote Tokyo Olympics

FILE - Then Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, smiles next to the President of the International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge, left, as Tokyo 2020 Olympic Bid Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda, right, looks on after signing the Host City Contract for the 2020 Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013. Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was the country’s central figure in landing the 2020 Olympics for Tokyo. Abe died after being shot while campaigning in western Japan on July 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File) FILE - Japanese then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, and former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, right, with other delegates, celebrate after Tokyo was awarded the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, in Buenos Aires, Argentine on Sept. 7, 2013. Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was the country’s central figure in landing the 2020 Olympics for Tokyo. Abe died after being shot while campaigning in western Japan on July 8, 2022. (Kyodo News via AP, File) FILE - Then Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appears as the Nintendo game character Super Mario during the closing ceremony at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Aug. 21, 2016. Despite his fame as a Japan's longest serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe might have had enjoyed his biggest moment at the closing ceremony of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro. (Yu Nakajima/Kyodo News via AP, File) FILE - Then Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gestures during a news conference at the 125th International Olympic Committee session in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Sept. 7, 2013. Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was the country’s central figure in landing the 2020 Olympics for Tokyo. Abe died after being shot while campaigning in western Japan on July 8, 2022.(AP Photo/Ivan Fernandez, File)