While Germany prepares to hold the 1936 Olympic Games, the world’s two other great troublemaking nations, Italy and Japan, have been quarreling bitterly for the honor of the 1940 Olympics. For Japan, ...
July 24 -- the date planned for this year's Olympic Games' opening ceremony -- has come and gone, having been rescheduled to July 23, 2021, coronavirus situation permitting. Eighty years ago, Tokyo ...
The 1940 Games, scheduled for Japan, were returned to the I.O.C. because of a war against China and political infighting, rather than a pandemic. By Ken Belson TOKYO — The exhibits in the Japan ...