Pretty sure there was a winter Olympics in Hokkaido in the 1990s...
Nagano (Honshu) in 1998. Sapporo (Hokkaido) in 1972. I suspect Tokyo was meant, not Japan as a whole. (Now I'm very curious how Nagano and Sapporo responded to the event, given that they aren't as cosmopolitan as Tokyo.)
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Date: 2015-02-22 19:39 (UTC)Nagano (Honshu) in 1998. Sapporo (Hokkaido) in 1972. I suspect Tokyo was meant, not Japan as a whole. (Now I'm very curious how Nagano and Sapporo responded to the event, given that they aren't as cosmopolitan as Tokyo.)