Japanese Olympic Committee

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The Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) is the national Olympic committee in Japan for the Olympic Games movement. It is a non-profit organisation that selects teams, and raises funds to send Japanese competitors to Olympic events organised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

The Japanese Olympic Committee have helped organise every bid for an Olympic Games by a Japanese city to date. Japan has held the Olympic Games three times, the Summer Olympics once (1964 Summer Olympic Games, Tokyo) and the Winter olympics twice (1972 Winter Olympics, Sapporo, and the 1998 Winter Olympic Games, Nagano).

[edit] See also

• Japan at the Summer Olympics
• Japan at the Winter Olympics

[edit] External links

• JOC official web site