Editing 1940 Summer Olympics (section)

===Forfeiture of Games===
When the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]] broke out on 7 July 1937, [[Ichirō Kōno]], a member of the [[Imperial Diet (Japan)|Imperial Diet]] (legislature), immediately requested that the Olympics be forfeited.<ref>Sandra Collins. ''The 1940 Tokyo Games: The Missing Olympics: Japan, the Asian Olympics and the Olympic Movement''. p. 144</ref> The [[1938 Far Eastern Games]] were also canceled, but Japan's IOC delegates persisted under a belief that the war would soon be over.<ref>Sandra Collins. ''The 1940 Tokyo Games: The Missing Olympics: Japan, the Asian Olympics and the Olympic Movement''. p. 146</ref> Amid the intensification of the war, the feasibility of both the Summer Olympics and the [[1940 Winter Olympics]] grew increasingly questionable to other countries, who suggested a different site be chosen and spoke of the possibility of boycotting the Games were they to proceed in Japan.<ref>Sandra Collins. ''The 1940 Tokyo Games: The Missing Olympics: Japan, the Asian Olympics and the Olympic Movement''. p. 149</ref>

In March 1938, [[Kanō Jigorō]], then-IOC member who also represented Japanese Olympic Committee, provided reassurances to the IOC at the organization's [[Cairo]] conference that Tokyo would still be able to serve as the host city. However, many Diet members in Japan had already openly questioned hosting the Olympics in wartime, and the military was demanding that the organizers build the venues from wood because they needed metals for the war front.<ref>橋本一夫『幻の東京オリンピック』（日本放送出版協会、1994年） {{ISBN|4-14-001709-0}}</ref> In July, a legislative session was held to decide the matters of the Summer and Winter Olympics and the planned 1940 [[World's fair|World's Fair]] all at once. The World's Fair was only "postponed", under a belief that Japan would be able to wrap up the war, but the Olympics could not be moved and were canceled.<ref>Sandra Collins. ''The 1940 Tokyo Games: The Missing Olympics: Japan, the Asian Olympics and the Olympic Movement''. pp. 161&ndash;163</ref>

[[Kōichi Kido]], who would later be instrumental in the [[surrender of Japan]] in 1945, announced the forfeiture on 16 July 1938. He closed his speech saying, "When peace reigns again in the Far East, we can then invite the Games to Tokyo and take that opportunity to prove to the people of the world the true Japanese spirit."<ref name="la84"/> This would come to pass in [[1964 Summer Olympics|1964]].

Despite the cancellation of the 1940 Olympics, the Tokyo organizing committee released its budget for the Games.  In a departure from standard practice, the budget included all capital outlays as well as direct organizing costs.  The total budget was [[Japanese yen|¥]]20.1 million, one-third of which would have been paid by the Tokyo metropolitan government.<ref name=Zarnowski>{{cite journal | author-link1 = Frank Zarnowski | last = Zarnowski | first = C. Frank | date =Summer 1992 | title = A Look at Olympic Costs | journal = Citius, Altius, Fortius | volume = 1 | issue = 1 | pages = 16–32 | url = http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv1n1/JOHv1n1f.pdf | access-date = 24 March 2007 | archive-date = 28 May 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080528012143/http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv1n1/JOHv1n1f.pdf | url-status = dead }}</ref>