Japan to Lay Plans for 1940 Before Delegates "Tokyo, Jan, 10.
Japan will shortly send her delegation to the International Olympic Committee meeting to be held m Cairo from March 21 t5 26 inclusive.
In is understood that Japan will there present her plans for the 1940 Olympic Games as well as for the Winter Games at o, Hokkaido, Northern Japan, will give her assurance to the world that she will stage -one of the best Olympiads. despite various rumours to the contrary due to the strained international situation at present existing in the Far East.
Dr. Matsuzo Nagai, former Ambassador to Germany and general secretary of the Organizing, Committee of the XIIth Olympic Games jh Tokyo, will sail from Kobe for Cairo aboard the Fushimi Maru on February 3, with either Prince Iyésato Tokugawa, Japanese member of the L.O.C. and president of the Japan Olympic Organizing Committee, or Professor Jigoro Kano, Japanese tember of the It is also learned that Mr, Fumio Takashima, former honorary seč retary of the Japanese Amateur Athletic Association and (of the Standing Committee of the OOC. has definitely decided to sail for Cairo with Mr. Werner Klingeberg, technical adviser to the OOC. from Berlin, who has been im Tokyo since last October on the recommendation the LO.C.
Professor Saishichi One, wiee"president of the National Skii Federation of Japan, who is already in Europe to attend the F.LS. Congress to be held in February at Helsingfors, Finland, will also attend the LO.C. Theéting with regard to the Winter Games.
Meanwhile, Count Micliimasa eye shima., Japanese member of thei LO.C., is also likely to go th Caito, for the week-end:
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