The Nagano Organizing Committee for the Olympic Winter Games of 1998 (NAOC) was the organizing committee for the

1998 Winter Olympics The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the and commonly known as Nagano 1998 ( ja, 長野1998), was a winter multi-sport event held from 7 to 22 February 1998, mainly in Nagano, Japan, with some events taking place in the ...

in the city of

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, Japan. The committee was established shortly after Nagano was selected as the host city in June 1991. Beginning in August, an advisory committee with members from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the JOC, the Nagano prefectural government, and the Nagano municipal government was established. The committee received non-profit foundation status from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and initial funding of 100 million yen that was split 60-40 between the JOC and the Nagano City government. During the run-up to the Games, various NAOC sections and departments were responsible for particular areas of planning for the Winter Olympics. However, for the actual Games, each venue had NAOC staff who were responsible for running of the events at each particular venue, working in coordination with the central headquarters. In all, NAOC organized a total of 44,096 staff, including direct NAOC staff, host site government employees, volunteers, officials for the various competitions, Olympic Radio and Television Organization (ORTO'98) staff, and SDF personnel.

Members included

* Eishiro Saito (President): Saito, the President of the Sports Fund Foundation, was a former president of

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and the 6th Chairman of the

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(Keidanren). *

Goro Yoshimura (born February 13, 1926) was a Japanese politician, and the former governor of Nagano Prefecture, in central Japan. Yoshimura was a graduate of the law faculty at the University of Tokyo. Upon graduation, he worked in the Nagano Prefectural Gov ...

(Vice President), Governor of Nagano Prefecture *

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/ref> * Tasuku Tsukada (Vice President), Mayor of Nagano City * Makoto Kobayashi (Director General), (Director General) of the Organizing committee, was a former Vice Minister of the Ministry of Home Affairs. On November 27, 1991, the executive board was convened for the first time.

References

{{OCOG/OCPG 1998 Winter Olympics Organising Committees for the Olympic Games 1991 establishments in Japan

Members included

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