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Japan at the 1912 Summer Olympics : ウィキペディア英語版 | Japan at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Japan competed at the Summer Olympic Games for the first time at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. ==Background== When Pierre de Coubertin formulated the modern Olympic Games, it was his intent for the games to be global in scale. However, no athletes from any Asian nation participated in the first four games, which was a cause for great concern. Kristian Hellström of the Swedish Olympic Committee wrote to the government of Japan to ask if they were going to send teams to the 1912 Olympics.〔Guttman, Allen. ''The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games'' (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992), p. 31.〕 The Japanese government did not want to embarrass itself on an international stage by saying no, so the Ministry of Education was told to look into this. The Ministry turned to Kanō Jigorō, the founder of modern judo, with recent experience in Europe. Kanō, after talking to the French ambassador to Japan and reading pamphlets sent by the Swedes, developed, in his words, "a fairly good idea of what the Olympic Games were"〔Kano, Jigoro. "Olympic Games and Japan," ''Dai Nippon'', 1936, p. 197.〕 and agreed to become a member of the International Olympic Committee. However, the Ministry of Education was uncooperative in providing any funding for participation in the Olympics, so Kanō approached the Japan Physical Education Society (''Nippon Taiiku Kai'') instead. However, the necessary funding was still not forthcoming, so in 1912, Kanō helped establish the Japan Amateur Athletic Association (''Dai Nippon Tai-iku Kyokai''), of which he became president〔Guttman, Allen. ''Japanese Sports: A History'' (University of Hawaii Press, 2001), p. 117-118.〕
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