On May 24, 1958, Emperor Hirohito of Japan, at the invitation of the President of the Asian Games Federation, announced the opening of the third Asian Games in Japanese. Avery Brendage, then president of the International Olympic Committee, accepted the invitation and also attended the opening ceremony of the Asian Games, becoming the first IOC president to participate in the Asian Games.

In order to be a good host, the whole country of Japan is also fighting hard, and the reception standard of the Asian Games has been directly raised to the height of the Olympics. It is said that the Japanese government invested 1.3 billion yen to build a national stadium with a capacity of 75,000 spectators, which directly made the main venue of the first two Asian Games "short and poor". The stadium later became a symbol of Japanese sports and has since hosted major sports events, including the 1964 Olympic Games, the 1991 World Athletics Championships, and the Toyota Cup (until 2001). As Japan's national stadium, the Emperor's Cup is held every year on January 1 and the Japan Football League Cup in November.

Not only that, but the Tokyo Asian Games have expanded in scale, with the number of participating countries and numbers making the previous two editions unmatched. There are 113 sports and 113 sports in the Asian Games, and in addition to the eight sports in the previous edition, five sports such as volleyball, billiards, free ride, tennis and hockey, as well as two exhibition competitions in badminton and judo, have been added. A total of 20 countries and regions participated, an increase of Iran and Nepal from the previous edition, with 1,422 athletes (including 121 female athletes).

Chinese Taipei did well, with a total of 173 male and female athletes participating in the third Asian Games, winning a total of six gold medals, ranking fifth. There are two gold medals that are commendable, one is that Yang Chuanguang continued to play the role of "Asian Iron Man" and won the decathlon championship for a second time; The second is a football match. They won gold again like they did four years ago. (Taiwan can win two football gold medals in the Asian Games, but now, hey, don't talk about it!) ）

The reason why only Taiwan participated and China did not participate this time was due to the contradictions between China and the International Olympic Organizing Committee. In fact, as early as the founding of the People's Republic of China, China applied for the right to participate in the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games. But on the eve of the Games, the Organising Committee was faced with a dilemma, with both China and Taiwan claiming to be the sole representative of China. On July 17, 1952, the 47th Plenary Session of the International Olympic Organizing Committee made a decision to invite China and Taiwan to participate in the Helsinki Olympic Games.

Taiwan protested against this and did not send athletes to the Olympics. Due to the traffic blockage of the domestic sports delegation, only swimmers participated in the Olympic Games. Nevertheless. The five-star red flag of the People's Republic of China finally flew for the first time at the Olympic Games.

After the five-star red flag was raised in the Olympic Games, China continued to invite the International Olympic Committee to recognize China as the sole legitimate representative of China and invite Taiwan's eligibility to expel Taiwan. In 1954, at the 49th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Athens, the IOC voted 23 to 21 to adopt a resolution that recognized both domestic and Taiwanese qualifications.

1955 year. At the 51st Annual Session of the International Olympic Committee, the international situation at that time was unfavorable to China. Western countries led by the United States refused to recognize the new socialist China, and they also supported Taiwan's continued occupation of the United Nations seat, and in addition, Brundage, then president of the International Olympic Committee, had a strong pro-Taiwan political tendency and was biased against New China, so China's just demand was once again rejected by the IOC.

Since then, the IOC has invited the country to participate in the 16th Melbourne Olympic Games at the same time. Taiwan was also invited to participate in the event in the name of the so-called "Republic of China," and Dong Shouyi, a representative of China's Olympic Organizing Committee, protested on many occasions at the 52 nd committee meeting, holding that this was an attempt to create "two Chinas." After the protests were ineffective, our country was forced to declare that it would not participate in the Melbourne Olympics.

In order to resolutely resist the political conspiracy of "two Chinas" and safeguard the sacred sovereignty of the motherland. The Chinese Olympic Committee (effectively the General Administration of Sports) issued a statement announcing that it had severed all relations with the IOC, so China did not participate in the 1958 Tokyo Asian Games.

Although he felt very sorry that he couldn't see the Chinese delegation Tang Ning, he was helpless about this kind of thing, and what made him even more depressed was that although the Japanese government spent a lot of money and energy to host the Olympic Games, there were not many tourists who came, so that Tang Ning's dream of wanting to take the opportunity to make a lot of money was disappointed, probably because there were too few Asian people who had money to travel abroad at that time.

Fortunately, the east is not bright and the west is bright, and the Asian Games did not make any money, but here in Lebanon and Vietnam, Tang Ning did not make less war money. In 1958, Lebanon was ruled by the pro-American Chamoun government, which was ineligible for re-election under the Lebanese constitution. However, when Chamon's term of office was about to expire in September 1958, he resorted to various conspiracies to hope for re-election and brutally suppress popular revolts.

In May 1958, the Lebanese people launched a large-scale armed uprising. By late June, the rebels had taken control of three-quarters of Lebanese territory, leaving the reactionary Shamun government in a precarious position. The United States has always made the Middle East its sphere of influence, and the Lebanese authorities not only have a "special relationship" with the United States in history, but also have several US military bases in Lebanon. Therefore, on July 15, 1958, under the pretext of the Lebanese Government's request and the pretext of "protecting Lebanese sovereignty" and "protecting American nationals," the United States brazenly adopted a surprise attack and sent troops to land in Lebanon, grossly interfering in Lebanon's internal affairs. At 3 p.m. on July 16, 1,500 marines, escorted by the US Navy's 6th Fleet, landed in Hardi Bay, near the international airport south of Beirut. Later, it continued to increase its troops through the West German "air corridor".

At the same time, the Taiwan authorities took advantage of this opportunity to clamore for a "counterattack on the mainland", which triggered the Kinmen artillery battle (Baidu for details, I dare not write about it. ）

Maybe it's because he's getting older, or maybe it's due to the impact of the last sleeping sickness, in short, Tang Ning would rather make less money now, and don't want to take risks on the front line, and he no longer has the impulse and enthusiasm when the Korean War broke out, so he is not the most profitable businessman in Japan in this incident, but he knows that soon, on the other hand, his gains will be able to make up for it, because Osamu Tezuka reported to him that the first 100 episodes of Astro Boy have been produced. (To be continued......)