Usually, the games' host cities are selected by the ioc members six to seven years in advance Japan's first participation at olympic games was in july 1912 at the 5th olympic games in stockholm The following olympic games were held in japan in the past Tokyo, summer games 1964 sapporo, winter games 1972 nagano, winter games 1998 tokyo, summer games 2020 (held in 2021) New selection procedures were introduced for determining the host for the 29th olympic games of 2008, for which japan had submitted osaka as a candidate The change in procedures was prompted by the uncovering of a scandal regarding salt lake city's bids for the 1998 and 2002 games.
In 1972, the winter olympics was hosted by sapporo, a city in hokkaido prefecture, japan After the plans to host the 1940 winter olympics were cancelled due to the outbreak of the second world. The international olympic committee selected tokyo as the venue for the summer olympics in 2020, making it the fourth time that japan has acted as host to one or other of the summer or winter games. Another 16 years passed and in 1998 it was nagano’s turn to host the 18th winter olympic games from 7 to 22 february The hokuriko shinkansen line was specially built for these games, connecting the capital to nagano, which was later extended in 2015 to kanazawa. Tokyo 1964 was a resounding success for japan, both in terms of renewing international relations in the aftermath of world war ii, and creating a new global perception of the country as a peaceful, democratic and technologically advanced nation.
Japan made their first appearance in the winter olympics and missing only the 1980 winter games since then. Since its first (ultimately canceled) bid in 1940, japan has hosted the olympics four times In 1964, 1972, 1998, and 2021 (originally 2020) Each occasion coincided with critical turning points in japan’s domestic development or global standing. Japan was the first asian nation to host the winter olympics in sapporo in 1972, the first to host a second winter olympics in nagano in 1998, and it launched several more failed bids before.
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