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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

The UK team at the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo 1964 Paralympic Games The Opening Ceremony was held at the Oda Field located within the Olympic village, as nearly 5,000 spectators looked on. The ...

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 ...

In the run-up to the 1964 Tokyo Games, the Olympic torch made its way through many newly independent nations in Asia. One of these was Malaysia, where a celebrated sprinter carried the flame into ...

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 ...