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Did Japan send an Olympic team to the London Olympics in 1948?

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Germany and Japan were not permitted to send any athletes to the 1948 Olympics. There were also no athletes from the Soviet Union who, although invited, declined to take part. In hosting the 1948 Olympic Games, London became the second city (after Paris) to host the Games twice. read more

Taking place just three short years after the end of the Second World War, when much of London — and indeed, much of Europe — was still rebuilding after the devastation of the 20th century's most cataclysmic conflict, the 1948 London summer Olympics were the first since the 1936 Berlin Games. read more

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