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The 1964 Olympic Games, Tokyo Olympic, were held during the Cold War which had been divided the international society into the East, the West and the Third World. Japan aimed to appeal the internation...al society to the postwar reconstruction by making the Tokyo Olympic Games a success.
North Korea, approved by the International Olympic Committee as the participating nation at the 1964 Olympic Games, were beginning to emerge as the diplomatic counterpart for Japan. Meanwhile, the normalization negotiations between Japan and Korea had been facing difficulties over the war compensation since the late 1950s’. Thus, Japan managed to have the balance on the two faces of the diplomacy: the Olympic diplomacy and the realistic diplomacy.
Regarding North Korea, the Japanese government admitted the entry visas to the North Korea Olympic participating players and encouraging the IOC to come GANEFO participants to the Tokyo Olympic Games. On the other hand, as for the political diplomatic matters related to the inter-Korean relationship, for example the banning of the re-entry of the Korean citizens living in Japan who went to North Korea to participate in the Olympic qualifiers, the Japanese government prioritized the realistic diplomacy.show more
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