Over fifty years ago, on May 27, 1959, The Japan Times reported that “A wave of rejoicing swept the nation last night as news was flashed from Munich that Tokyo had been awarded the 1964 Olympic Games. The fifth ring in the Olympic symbol had been completed. The Olympic Games had finally come to Asia. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Olympic history'
Tokyo Gets The Games!
June 25th, 2009 7 Comments
Tags: Olympic history · Toky2016 · Tokyo Olympics · Yoshiyuki Tsuruta
Tokyo Olympic Museum
June 19th, 2009 4 Comments
Tokyo already has a lot of Olympic history to look back on with pride and one of the best places to get a sense of what this means to the country and her citizens is The Prince Chichibu Memorial Sports Museum.
The Summer Olympics were hosted by Tokyo in 1964 and is still home to a [...]
Tags: Olympic history · olympic museum · Tokyo
