A sundial 日時計 (hidokei) commemorating the 1964 Tokyo Olympics:
For pictures of the 1964 Olympics, see:
- Tokyo Olympics 1964 young boy spectator
- Tokyo Olympics high jump 1964
- Tokyo Olympics balloon launch 1964
- Yoyogi National Gymnasium: postcards from the 1960’s
- ‘Tokyo desert’ or ‘Olympic Drought’: “in the 1960s, Japan’s booming economic development, coupled with reduced rainfall in the Kanto region, led to water shortages in Tokyo, leaving much of the city with water for only 9 hours a day. While Japan prepared for its coming-out party at the 1964 Olympics, the capital contended with the unfortunate nickname “Tokyo Desert”
the tokyo files: media 東京ファイル・メディア 
[…] Consider the following photograph: we face west, peering down on a broad avenue that spans a newly constructed highway underpass; an empty park appears newly built; advertising balloons float in the distance; the white walls and peaked roof of the Kabuki-za theater rise above its shorter neighbors. We are at the edge of the Ginza in 1963. This is a rich era for cultural historians: incipient prosperity, shaking off the wounds of the Second World War, the coming-out party of the 1964 Olympiad… […]
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