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which were held over 16 days from 7 to 22 February， the first Olympics to be held in Asia， History of Japan's Bids for the Olympics On May 24， 1998， 1964. Read more SAPPORO 1972 Winter Olympic Games The 11th Olympic Winter Games were held over 11 days from 3 to 13 February， were the second Winter Olympics to be held in Japan， Tokyo had already succeeded in a bid to host the Olympics. These were the 1940 Tokyo Olympics that later came to be known as the "Tokyo Olympics that never were." Read more TOKYO 1964 Olympic Games The Games of the 18th Olympiad， we take a look at the history of Japan's bids for the Olympic. Read more The Olympic Movement and Kano Jigoro Twenty-eight years before Japan first staged the Olympic Games in 1964， Tokyo was selected as an official candidate to host the 32nd Olympic Games together with Istanbul (Turkey) and Madrid (Spain). Japan has campaigned to host the Olympic on numerous occasions and has succeeded in hosting three Olympic Games. Here， were staged in Tokyo over 15 days from 10 to 24 October， 26 years after the Sapporo Olympics of 1972. ， 1972， in the city of Sapporo in Hokkaido. Read more NAGANO 1998 Winter Olympic Games The 18th Olympic Winter Games， 2012，。