{"id":18767,"date":"2021-07-25T20:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T03:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/?post_type=socaljapan&#038;p=18767"},"modified":"2021-07-26T10:07:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T17:07:49","slug":"2021-07-25","status":"publish","type":"socaljapan","link":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/socaljapan\/2021-07-25\/","title":{"rendered":"July 25th 2021 O.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">July 25th 2021 O.A.<\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vvkkn49pFF8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Olympic Legacy<\/h2>\n<p>Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 has begun.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the games, LA 84, a sports promotion foundation held a ceremony to return the riding crop used by a Japanese Olympian to his family on June 3rd.<\/p>\n<p>The riding crop was used by Takeichi Nishi, known as Baron Nishi.<br \/>\nIn the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Nishi won a gold medal in Equestrian.<br \/>\nThis is Japan&#8217;s only Olympic medal to date in an equestrian event.<\/p>\n<p>Nishi was friends with celebrities like Douglas Fairbanks and was known as Baron Nishi in the community, but died in the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945.<\/p>\n<p>The riding crop was gifted to the Foundation in 1964, and it has been decided to return back to Nishi\u2019s family taking the opportunity of the Tokyo Games.<\/p>\n<p>The riding crop was given to Consul General Muto and will return to Nishi\u2019s family living in Japan by the actor, Masi Oka.<\/p>\n<p>The returning of the riding crop is available to watch on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n-GMKml9ecI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LA84\u2019s Youtube channel<\/a><\/span><\/span>.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n-GMKml9ecI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n-GMKml9ecI<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Currently, JACCC has an exhibit displaying the photos of Nishi and the 1932 Los Angeles Games.<\/p>\n<p>The photos were taken by photographer, Toyo Miyatake in 1932.<\/p>\n<p>30 photos are being displayed, starting from Japanese athletes being welcomed by the locals, athletes competing, and ending with the athletes being seen off.<\/p>\n<p>Memorabilia related to the Olympics, like the poetry published in 1933 are also displayed.<\/p>\n<p>Photo exhibition \u201cTorch\u201d will be held at Doizaki Gallery, 1st floor of JACCC until August 8th.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Olympic Legacy<\/li>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":18769,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"socaljapan_category":[258],"socaljapan_tag":[],"class_list":["post-18767","socaljapan","type-socaljapan","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","socaljapan_category-2021-07_july"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan\/18767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/socaljapan"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18767"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan\/18767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18771,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan\/18767\/revisions\/18771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"socaljapan_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan_category?post=18767"},{"taxonomy":"socaljapan_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan_tag?post=18767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}