The1964 Summer Olympics, officially theGames of the XVIII Olympiad and commonly known asTokyo 1964, were an internationalmulti-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 inTokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the1940 Summer Olympics, but this honor was subsequently passed toHelsinki due to Japan'sinvasion of China, before ultimately being cancelled due toWorld War II. The 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo were the first Olympic Games held in the city and, as of 2021, the only ones to have spectators, as the2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo were conducted without spectators due to theCOVID-19 pandemic. Tokyo was chosen as the host city during the 55thIOC Session in West Germany on 26 May 1959.
The 1964 Summer Games were the first Olympics held inAsia, and marked the first timeSouth Africa was excluded for using itsapartheid system in sports. Until 1960, South Africa had fielded segregated teams, conforming to the country's racial classifications; for the 1964 Games theInternational Olympic Committee demanded a multi-racial delegation to be sent, and after South Africa refused, they were excluded from participating. The country was, however, allowed to compete at the1964 Summer Paralympics, also held in Tokyo, its Paralympic Gamesdebut. (Full article...)
Tokyo Dome is an indoor stadium in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Tokyo Dome (東京ドーム,Tōkyō Dōmu) is an indoorstadium inBunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. It was designed as abaseball stadium following its predecessor,Korakuen Stadium (whose former site is now occupied by the Tokyo Dome Hotel and a plaza for this stadium). In Japan, it is often used as a unit of size; for example, "the new construction is five times the size of Tokyo Dome."
Image 20The five-story pagoda ofKan'ei-ji, which was constructed during the reign ofTokugawa Hidetada and required the building of theKimon (Devil's Gate) (fromHistory of Tokyo)
Image 56A social hierarchy chart based on old academic theories. Such hierarchical diagrams were removed from Japanese textbooks after various studies in the 1990s revealed that peasants, craftsmen, and merchants were in fact equal and merely social categories. Successive shoguns held the highest or near-highestcourt ranks, higher than most court nobles. (fromHistory of Tokyo)
Image 57Picture of the Upper Class, a c. 1794–1795 painting by Utamaro. The woman on the left is lower in class than the woman on the right, who wears more colorful clothes (fromHistory of Tokyo)
.jpg)
.svg)
.jpg)
.svg)
_symbol.svg)
_symbol.svg)
_symbol.svg)
_symbol.svg)
_symbol.svg)
