2016年7月17日日曜日

Q13. The reaction of people to host the Tokyo Olympic in 1964 in spite of the very difficult situation to hold the Olympic after the war

The simple answer will be: although there are little information about the survey of the reaction of people to host the Tokyo Olympic in 1964 and there are some opinions which say that the Tokyo Olympic in 1964 had the negative impacts, we can see the strong influence on people and the life at that time when the Tokyo Olympic in 1964 was held.

In addition, although there are some Olympic Games which were held in Japan, such as the Nagano Olympic and the Sapporo Olympics as the winter Olympic Games, I will focus on the two Olympic Games in the same place: the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 and the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 in this blog.

Although this answer will be similar to the question 12, the Tokyo Olympic in 1964 brought the big influence on Japan, in terms of the recovery from the World War Ⅱ, the rapid growth of the economy and the developoment of the infrastructure. Actually, at that time in Tokyo, the development of the town was needed, because the foreigners to come to see the Tokyo Olympic was increasing and the traffic infrastructure was needed because of the increase the number of the airplanes. As for the roads, the big roads like Aoyama Dori and the ring road No.7 was maintained in the period of preparation for the Tokyo Olympic in 1964.
Also, the construction of the Shinkansen was also carried out in the period of the preparation for the Olympic. Nowadays, the technology of creating the Shinkansen and its transportation is introduced to create the Taiwan Shinkansen.
In addition, as I wrote in the article about the presentation of the two aspects for the Tokyo Olympic in 2020, especially the old people say that they want to see the flourish of the Tokyo Olympic in 1964 again, and Prime Minister also inferred to this issue.
Through these facts, we can say that the Tokyo Olympic have the positive impacts through the people, and the infrastructures.

However, there were some negative impacts on the Tokyo Olympic in 1964.
Although it is rarely talked about, the funds to construct the Shinkansen railway was not paid attention to. Also because of the lack of the cost to construct the infrastructure, Japan needed to construct the railway or roads above the rivers by using the bridge. This was to avoid buying the land to construct the roads. So there were many difficulties to improve the infrastructures in Japan.
Furthermore, the Tokyo Olympic in 1964 led to decrease the population in the residental area. The residents in these area, more than 100 houses were forced to move to another place because of the save the place to construct the stadium for the Tokyo Olympics and the nature around these areas was also removed.
Through these aspects which are negative, we can see that not only the positive impacts but also the negative impacts influence on the people lives.

I trust these two articles: one is from The Japan Times and another is from the editor of the magazine "Tokyo-Jin."
Regarding to the first one, I thought that the facts which are unknown are described very clearly. So I think that through this article we can have the opinion of the cons to host the Olympics in 1964.
As for the second one, this article describes the development of constructing the infrastructure in urban area, especially in Tokyo in detail.
So through these two articles, we can see the influence on people lives brought by the Tokyo Olympics in 1964.

I was surprised to read the article which describes the negative impacts of the Tokyo Olympics in 1964. We should know about this aspect, too. I think that the opinion regarding to the Tokyo Olympics is filled with the positive opinions and the negative impacts become "blind."
I think that this post and the previous post which is written the answer for the question 12 will help us think about the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 too because there are some similar problems such as the economic problems and the infrastructure problems. So we should learn the previous cases from the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 to think about the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 more actively.
Although the age to host the Tokyo Olympic is different, we should know the both sides: pros and cons of hosting the Olympic Games more and more so that we could help the next Tokyo Olympics more flourish and influence on our lives positively, and have the good impression from the foreigners who come to Japan to watch the Olympic Games.



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