Beyond 2020: Creating a New Kind of Sports Legacy
(WorldNews Japan)

When Tokyo hosted the Olympic Games Tokyo 1964, it marked Japan`s postwar return to the world stage, but the event also created a legacy that shaped the capital and the nation. At Panasonic`s Cross-Value Innovation Forum 2018 held in Tokyo recently, speakers shared their views on what kinds of legacies the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 should generate. Tokyo 1964 is often associated with the inauguration of Japan`s Shinkansen bullet train, the high-speed rail network that grew into a vital element of the national economy by linking cities, businesses and people. But the event also generated an important intangible heritage. `The Olympic Games Tokyo 1964 created a legacy of sports...