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The genesis of this book was a five-part series on the 1964 Olympics I wrote for the Japan Times in 2014, followed by an article in Foreign Policy comparing the preparations for the 1964 Games with the 2020 Games. The editors at Kadokawa Shoten, Satoshi Gunji, Tetsuya Sugahara, and Motofumi Ijuin, asked me to turn this material into a book, and since Kadokawa had published the best-selling Japanese-language editions of You Gotta Have Wa and Tokyo Underworld, I readily said yes, and Miko Yamanouchi at Japan Uni finalized the deal. I wound up with a 175,000 word manuscript, which Kadokawa published in the fall of 2017, translated into Japanese by Masayuki Tamaki, Japan’s leading sports journalist, who had also worked on Wa. For US publication I revised and shortened the MS, removing many of the Olympic-related segments as well as chapters on my work as a military electronic intelligence analyst for the NSA and CIA, while adding new and updated material on the city of Tokyo in general and on the Coronavirus in particular, the latter having reared its nasty little head while I was working on the final version of this book.
A number of people helped me in the process of putting this book together. They include Jack Gallagher, the former Japan Times sports editor who commissioned the original 1964 Olympics series, JT writer Ed Odeven, who copy-edited it, the writer-editor Mary Corbett—my BOD sidekick at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan who waded through the original draft, Nikkei Asia Review editor Gwen Robinson, and International Creative Management Partner Amanda “Binky” Urban. Jeff Kingston, the well-known Temple University professor and Japan author, read the MS and offered insightful comments. Peter Miller of Kamprint in Kamakura read several versions and offered trenchant analysis and encouragement. Tokyo management consultant Mitch Murata provided feedback on a number of occasions, as did securities and military affairs analyst Hiroki Allen. New York-based journalist David Roberts, the former academic physicist and diplomat who was my collaborator at Foreign Policy magazine, offered valuable advice, while China-based writer Don MacLaren read through the manuscript twice and corrected many mistakes. Douglas Victoria, a fellow traveler at Fuchu Air Station back in the day, offered helpful recollections. It was good to reconnect with him again. Peter O’Connor offered research materials. FP editor Blake Hounshell helped iron out kinks in LDP- and Olympic-related articles. 1964 author Roy Tomizawa offered advice. Bryan Dunn and Kevin Novak offered libationary guidance. David Shapiro, who edited Tokyo Underworld and The Meaning of Ichiro, did another one of his thoroughly professional edits on the MS, while Japanamerica author Roland Kelts, who also set this project up with Peter Goodman at Stone Bridge, did a final edit. Mark Schreiber read the final version and offered several valuable suggestions for improvement. Peter and John Sockolov did a superb job preparing the text and the photographs for publication. I thank them all for their generous help and take the blame for any other errors that may still exist.
I also want to thank Kozo Abe of the Yukan Fuji and Hiroshi Naito at the Sankei Shimbun for their help in the long, arduous task of digging out photos and express my gratitude to the following individuals: Noriko Takahashi at WAttention, Bob Kirschenbaum of Pacific Press Service in Tokyo, the Andrew Roth Gallery in New York on behalf of Katsumi Watanabe, Noriyuki Suetsugu of Getty Images Japan, Pierre-Louis Denis at the William Klein studio in Paris, Bonnie Pong Mai-wa at Hitomi Watanabe photos, and Hiroko Moriwaki and Nakajima-san at the FCCJ. Also thanks to Shoko Nakajima at Kyodo and Mark Schreiber for the photos they provided.
Finally, a big arigatou to my wife Machiko and my sister Margo who provided moral support as well as old photos, and thanks to everyone in my extended family in the Kondo, Hayano and Kobaysahi clans in the Tokyo area and the Noble, Davis and Gruttadauro families in the US.
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Unlike my previous works, this book has no footnotes or bibliography. It is a memoir after all. However, researchers who are interested in my sources are free to contact me and I will be happy to answer specific questions. You can find my contact information on my web page:
—RW
