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===Postwar to Today===
===Postwar to Today===
+In 1964, Tokyo became the first Asian city to host the Olympic Games. The Summer Olympics are planned to take place in Tokyo again in 2020.
By the 1970s, fully one-quarter of Japan's population lived in or around Tokyo.<ref>Anne Walthall, Introduction, ''The Human Tradition in Modern Japan'', Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (2002), xvii.</ref> Today, that proportion is even higher.
By the 1970s, fully one-quarter of Japan's population lived in or around Tokyo.<ref>Anne Walthall, Introduction, ''The Human Tradition in Modern Japan'', Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (2002), xvii.</ref> Today, that proportion is even higher.