The Japanese Olympic Committee was founded in 1911 and Japan has participated in every Summer Olympic Games since 1912.
Nagoya is Japan's fourth-largest city and a major industrial center, with a population of over 9 million people in the greater Nagoya area.
Akira, directed by Katsuhiro Otomo in 1988, is a classic anime film that helped to popularize the cyberpunk genre of science fiction.