The 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee is more than halfway toward its recruitment target of 80,000 volunteers, it revealed Wednesday.

Toshiro Muto, the organizing committee's director general, told the Japan National Press Club that about 47,000 people have completed the registration process to become volunteers. Volunteer applications will be accepted until the beginning of December.

Including those who have applied but not completed registration, the total figure of applicants is roughly 85,000, he said.

"I don't think we will be facing a shortage of volunteers," Muto said. "The target of 80,000 isn't absolute, but if we can't recruit that many, we'll make do with however many we have."

Muto also said the organizing committee was prepared to reschedule events in the case of typhoons or other severe weather.

It will also look at bringing forward the marathons' start time by one hour to 6 a.m. if the ruling Liberal Democratic Party is unable to realize its proposal to introduce daylight saving time during the Games as a countermeasure for high summer temperatures.

The men's and women's marathons were originally scheduled for 7:30 a.m. starts, but were pushed forward 30 minutes.