<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > In 1964, Japan hosted its first Olympic Games, why didn't China participate</h1>
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Video from Ms. Masumi Zuo, Head of the Liaison Office of CES Think Tank in Japan: Kyoto in summer
The 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the 18th Summer Olympics, was the first time the Olympic Games came to Asia and Japan entered the top three Olympic medals for the first time.
A total of 93 countries and regions participated in the Olympic Games, with 5151 athletes (including 678 female athletes), and the competition events were divided into 19 major events and 163 minor events.
Tokyo, Japan, originally won the right to host the 1940 Olympic Games in 1936, but because of World War II, the public opinion of the international community had to abandon the 1940 Tokyo Olympic Games. Japan recovered quickly after the war and tried to bid for the 1960 Olympics in 1954, but was defeated by Rome, Italy. Japan continued its bid to host the 1964 Olympic Games in 1958, and finally successfully defeated Brussels in Belgium, Vienna in Austria, Buenos Aires in Argentina and Detroit in the United States, becoming the first Asian country to host the Olympic Games.
After the successful bid, the Japanese government spent $3 billion to build sports venues, as well as related facilities such as transportation facilities and water supply systems, and the world's first high-speed railway was opened a few days before the Olympic Games.
Because the host is Japan, judo and volleyball became Olympic sports for the first time. Japan won three gold medals in judo, only to lose the silver medal to the Dutch in the undifferentiated class. In women's volleyball, Japan continued the myth of the Oriental Witch of the Year, defeating the Soviet Union in the final to win the gold medal.
After the Japanese women's volleyball team won the Olympic women's volleyball title, 31-year-old captain Masae Kawanishi was invited to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato. During the conversation, Masayuki Kawanishi admitted that because of the devilish training for the Olympic Games, he no longer knew how to get along with men, and he could not know the ideal person. Sato Eisaku insisted on helping the female captain and met with Joe Shimura for her, and the two eventually entered the marriage hall.
Based on the "one-China" principle, the Kuomintang-ruled Taiwan authorities sent a delegation of 80 people.
Reviewer: Zhai Yun
Editor: Morning