Japan^s Mega Sports Events and International Exchange and Contribution
Shimizu Yasuo

Doshisha University

Abstract

This report examines examples of Japanese sporting events that have contributed to international contributions and exchanges.
Considerations were made based on newspapers, magazines and materials of the time. The results are as follows.
At the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, there was a problem in recruiting volunteer interpreters, and there was also a problem with Japanese learning foreign languages. Pictographs also appeared at that time. At the Sapporo Olympics, Japanese education was given to the officials of the games. At the Kobe Universiade and the Tokyo World Championships in Athletics, sports volunteers began to take root, but international exchange did not make much progress. However, the Nagano Olympics featured cross-cultural education, while the 2002 World Cup drew attention to regional international exchanges and the development of international society. At the 2008 World Championships in Athletics held in Osaka, there were many signs in other languages in Osaka. Tokyo 2020 was decided in 2013, and the project of multilingual display and multilingual translation was started in Japan. Those projects were put to good use in the 2019 Rugby World Cup. There were no foreign spectators at Tokyo 2020, but the multilingual signs remained a legacy of the sport.

Keywords: events,lagacy ,multilingual signs, multilingual translation

Topic: Mega sporting-events