Why Japan Is Excited About the 2020 Tokyo Olympics"The 1964 Olympics had a huge impact in the global imagination of what Japan could be and would be," says Christian Tagsold, a scholar of modern Japan at Germany's Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, Germany. Just 10 days before the start of the '64 Games, Japan launched the shinkansen bullet train service. Over the ensuing decades, the still-growing and remarkably punctual network has carrie
