Traces Japan’s history with the Olympic games and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics for viewers before Tokyo hosts the event again in 2020. The first half tells the story of marathon runner Kanakuri Shiso, who became one of the first Japanese nationals to participate in the Olympics in Stockholm in 1912. The second half features Tabata Masaji, the coach who laid the foundations of Japanese swimming and helped bring the games to Tokyo for the first time in 1964.
Japanese study overview
Idaten: Tokyo Olympic Hanashi is a Japanese drama of 367,200 characters, with 13,819 unique words and 2,029 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 13,819 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 君Mr×645
- 言うto say×528
- 金栗Kanakuri×509
- 俺I×471
- 私I×468
- 日本Japan×460
- 走るto run×437
- 東京Tokyo×368
- 先生teacher×337
- 選手player (of a sport)×332
- 出るto leave×326
- 勝つto win×301
- 四三one four-of-a-kind and one three-of-a-kind in a dealt hand×252
- 嘉納accepting with pleasure×220
- 前畑Maihata×205
- 韋駄天Skanda (swift-footed guardian deity)×168
- 三島Santō×164
- 田畑Tahata×144
- 足袋tabi×95
- 金メダルgold medal×91