AFP通信のインスタグラム(afpphoto) - 7月16日 21時57分
AFP Photo - Japan and judo - an unbreakable bond - 📷 @Yasuyoshi CHIBA @straydreams
.
When the Tokyo Olympics eventually open a year late, one of the hottest tickets in town will be for judo. Invented in Japan and first introduced at Tokyo 1964, judo is coming home.
.
Judo, Japan and the Olympics have an inextricable bond. The sport was created in the late 19th century by the revered Jigoro Kano, who would become Japan's -- and Asia's -- first International Olympic Committee member.
.
Kano, whose portrait gazes down benevolently at every dojo, was the driving force behind Japan first taking part in the Olympics in 1912, travelling to Stockholm as team captain and meeting Olympics founding father Baron Pierre de Courbertin.
.
He was also instrumental in Tokyo being awarded the Games in 1940 -- an Olympics that never took place due to Japanese aggression in China and the outbreak of World War II.
[BIHAKUEN]UVシールド(UVShield)
>> 飲む日焼け止め！「UVシールド」を購入する
2,602
13
2020/7/16
