Of over 200 countries that participated in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, only one refused to ... in the Olympic Games since its debut at the 1964 Winter Games in Innsbruck, and it first participated ...

Even with the Olympics, only 270,000 foreigners visited Japan in 1964. In 2019, there were some 31.9 million foreign visitors, their spending a major economic pillar.

Still, bookstore owner Yoshiyuki Morioka was determined to compile the photos into a book titled "Ginza Tokyo 1964," which was initially meant to coincide with the Tokyo Olympics this year ...