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On October 10, 1964, Yoshinori Sakai, 100,713th torchbearer and last torchbearer, all dressed in white, rose to set ablaze the Olympic cauldron with symbolic value.
He is known as "Atomic bomb boy".
Born in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the day an American bomber dropped an atomic bomb on his city, the student, a sprinter in training, was chosen to embody reconstruction and peace.
He did not participate in the Olympics, but he is the broker of emotions.
Yoshinori Sakai died in 2014. Tokyo had just celebrated the return of the Olympics.
With in mind the vivid memories of the 1964 Olympics.
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The 1964 Games were a stage to present to the world Japan's recovery from the war and the post-war economic miracle
,” writes Keigo Kobayashi, professor at the Waseda Faculty of Science and Engineering in Tokyo.
“Some Games are definitely more influential than others in terms of lasting effects.
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