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1964 Summer Olympics: Tokyo hosted the Summer Olympic Games, marking the first time the Games were held in Asia-Pacific. 1968: Japan surpassed West Germany to become the second largest economic power in the world. The Ogasawara Islands were returned from American occupation to Japanese sovereignty. Japanese citizens were allowed to return. 1969 ...
Japanese athletes have won 542 medals at the Summer Olympic Games (except art competitions), with the most gold medals won in judo, gymnastics, wrestling, and swimming, as of the end of the 2020 Summer Olympics. Japan has also won 76 medals at the Winter Olympic Games. Its most successful Olympics is the 2020 Games hosted in Tokyo. The Japanese ...
Ii Naosuke (井伊 直弼, November 29, 1815 – March 24, 1860) [1] was a daimyō (feudal lord) of Hikone (1850–1860) and also Tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate, Japan, a position he held from April 23, 1858, until his death, when he was assassinated in the Sakuradamon Incident on March 24, 1860.
Japan won its second fencing gold medal of the Paris Olympics by beating Italy 45-36 in the last bout of the Games in the men's team foil final Sunday. Japan's alternate, Yudai Nagano, came in for ...
Japanese Olympics may refer to: Japan at the Olympics; 1940 Summer Olympics, awarded to Tokyo, moved to Helsinki first, then cancelled due to World War II; 1964 Summer Olympics, held in Tokyo, Japan; 1972 Winter Olympics, held in Sapporo, Japan; 1998 Winter Olympics, held in Nagano, Japan; Tokyo bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics; 2020 Summer ...
Japan's monarchy at Kyoto became a symbolic entity, as the country's real power was given to Edo's Tokugawa Shogunate. By the 1650s, it became Japan's largest city, and by 1720, it was the world's largest. The Great Fire of Meireki in 1657 killed around 108,000 people. After the opening of Japan in 1854, there was conflict over Japan's governance.
Thus the rescued Japanese sailors were first taken to Bodega Bay near Fort Ross, then to Sitka, the capital of Russian America. The Forester left Sitka in June or July 1815, intending to sail to Japan to return the Japanese sailors, but having difficulty in the Kuril Islands turned back to Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka, arriving on 12 September 1815.
On November 16, 2016, NHK announced that its 58th taiga drama will be about Japan's participation in the Olympic Games from 1912 up to 1964, with Kankurō Kudō as writer and Tsuyoshi Inoue as chief director. [1] [7] The drama series' title, Idaten: Tokyo Orinpikku-banashi (subtitle: "A Tale of the Tokyo Olympics"), was revealed on April 4 ...