I’ve researched the 1964 Tokyo Olympics for four years. I published an original blog post everyday for over a thousand days straight in the course of my research. And I finally completed the manuscript of my book, “1964:  The Greatest Year in the History of Japan – How the Tokyo Olympics Symbolized Japan’s Miraculous Rise From the Ashes.” Here are a few of the articles I wrote in 2018 relevant to those Games in 1964:

• Olympic Sprinter Rich Stebbins Part 2: Gold Medal, Social Studies, Middle School
• 1964 than Pole Vaulter Fred Hansen Part 1: Winning Gold on a Long Day’s Journey into Night
• Ralph Boston Leaps to Gold, Silver and Bronze Part 3: Under Dark Tokyo Clouds, Lynn Davies Sees Golden Linings, Boston Silver

• To All Olympians from October, 1964: Did You Get this Kokeshi Doll?
• Olympic Ransom and the Terror Attack of the ’64 Olympics that Never Was Part 3: The Hotel New Otani – Once the Tallest and the Flashiest in Japan
• Japan Rising from the Ashes Part 1: The Aftermath of the Bombing Raids on Japan at War’s End
• Japan Rising from the Ashes Part 3: Grave of the Fireflies