Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on May 2013
Tokyo’s latest bids for the Olympics have had their ups and downs—more of the latter recently courtesy of Governor Inose. Things were simpler back in 1964 when the capital trumpeted Japan’s rise from the ashes of World War Two by hosting its first summer Olympics. This exhibition at Haneda’s Discovery Museum presents a wide range of graphic design, medals and other artifacts from the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, as well as a series of panels by designer Soichiro Yokoyama celebrating the early postwar years of Haneda airport. Just the thing for whiling away some time during a flight delay.
