Sixty years on, Mills travelled to Paris in August last year to present his 1964 Olympic USA team tracksuit as a memento of ...

“Tokyo 1964: The Olympics Begin,” read the banner above Sakai’s photo. Along with Rome in 1960, Tokyo was probably the first modern Olympics. It was the first to be shown internationally ...

Tokyo 1964: Designing Tomorrow brings together an array of artefacts from the 1964 Games, as a way of exploring their creative and technological legacy, as well as the event’s impact on ideas around ...

The 1964 Tokyo Olympics were the first to hold a torch relay in Asia, taking in 11 cities. Passing through war-torn Asia Kuno Akiko was an interpreter for the Japanese team that orchestrated the ...

A memorable Olympics as they are held in Asia for the first time with plenty of success for British athletes TOKYO had spent over £2 billion on new facilities and infrastructure for these Olympic ...

He recently published a book about Japan's first Olympics in Tokyo in 1964, and he hopes to be in Fukushima for the start of the torch relay next March. On October 10, 1964, I was just one year ...

The economic and infrastructure rebuilding of postwar Tokyo was nothing short of a miracle. It culminated with being selected to host the 1964 Olympic Games becoming the first Asian country to win ...

It marked the second time that Tokyo had been awarded the Olympic Games, having previously hosted the event in 1964. Though some events will be held elsewhere in Japan, the majority of the Olympic ...

Japan hoped that holding the 2020 Olympics would reprise the triumph ... Japanese society is very different from October 1964, when many people saw the Tokyo Games as their country’s proud ...

The economic and infrastructure rebuilding of postwar Tokyo was nothing short of a miracle. It culminated with being selected to host the 1964 Olympic Games becoming the first Asian country to win ...