(Illustration by Yukiyo Oda/Stripes Okinawa)
Japan has hosted the Olympics four times in the history of the games – Tokyo (summer) in 1964, Sapporo (winter) in 1972, Nagano (winter) in 1998. And the 2nd summer games for Tokyo 2020 were held in 2021 after postponing due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Tokyo was also chosen as the site for the 1940 summer games, but those, along with the 1944 games, never happened because of World War II.
![Japanese kanji character: tsu (-ku)/chaku/ki (-ru) [arrive/wear] and a sentence of the language lesson: “I’ll go home.”](https://japan.stripes.com/travel/h7qlpy-tsu,-chaku,-ki.jpg/alternates/FREE_350/tsu%20chaku%20ki.JPG)
tsu (-ku)/chaku/ki (-ru) [arrive/wear] (Image by Stripes Okinawa)
