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for the

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movement, based in

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. It is a

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organisation that selects teams and raises funds to send Japanese competitors to Olympic events organised by the

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(IOC). The Japanese Olympic Committee has helped organise every bid for an Olympic Games by a Japanese city to date. Japan has held the Olympic Games four times: the Summer Olympics twice ( 1964 Summer Olympic Games and the

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, both in

) and the Winter Olympics twice (the

1972 Winter Olympics The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially the and commonly known as Sapporo 1972 (), were a winter multi-sport event held from February 3 to 13, 1972, in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. It was the first Winter Olympic Games to take place outside ...

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and the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Nagano). Team Japan 2021

Presidents

Executive committee

The committee of the JOC is represented by: *President: Yasuhiro Yamashita *Vice Presidents: Eisuke Hiraoka, Yasuo Saito *Secretary General: Eisuke Hiraoka *Senior Members: Kiichiro Matsumaru, Kohzo Tashima, Tsuyoshi Fukui, Tetsuro Hibino *Members: Yuko Arakida, Masatoshi Ito, Koji Ueno, Shin-ichiro Otsuka, Mitsugi Ogata, Takahiro Kitano, Akira Kokaze, Mikako Kotani, Haruka Saito, Noriyuki Sakamoto, Yuji Takada, Naoko Takahashi, Mitsuo Tsukahara, Hiroo Nobata, Yosuke Fujiwara, Ichiro Hoshino, Kazufumi Minami, Keisuke Muratsu, Koji Murofushi, Kaori Yamaguchi *Auditors: Mitsutaka Kurokawa, Shigemitsu Sakuma, Toshihisa Nagur

Notable former members

* Tsutomu Kawabuchi: member of the IIHF Hall of Fame

Member federations

Japan National Federations are the organizations that coordinate all aspects of their individual sports. They are responsible for training, competition and development of their sports. There are currently 34 Olympic Summer and 6 Winter Sport Federations in Japan.Member federations on official site (English)
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