Japan and the Olympics

Do you know how many times the Olympics have been held in Japan, and when and where?

Japan has competed in most of the Olympic Games since its first appearance in 1912. After World War II she was not invited to the 1948 Olympics and participated in a boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

Japan won its first Olympic medal in 1920 and successfully won its first gold medal in 1928. Japanese athletes took home a total of 439 medals from the tournament.The majority of gold medals were in judo. There were Summer Olympics.Japan has won 58 medals at the Winter Olympics.

Japan has hosted a total of four Olympic Games in the past. 2 Summer Olympics and 2 Winter Olympics.

• 1964 Tokyo Olympics
• 1972 Winter Olympics Sapporo, Hokkaido
• 1998 Winter Olympics Nagano Prefecture Nagano Prefecture
• 2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo
• The 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo were also the first Olympics to be held in Asia, and the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo were the first to be held on this continent.

Regarding the 2020 Olympics, the 4th Olympics were originally scheduled to be held in the summer of 2020, but the event was postponed due to the effects of the epidemic, and the venue was changed to 2021, but the name remains the same. , was called Tokyo 2020.