As I write this, the 2016 Olympics are currently underway in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil, so I thought it might be both timely and interesting to reflect on Japan's Olympic history and how a small part of that was illustrated on needle tins that Japan produced throughout the 1930's, at the height of the gramophone boom. The modern Summer Olympics as we now know them began in 1912 and Japan has competed in almost every Olympics since. To date, Japan has won 398 Summer Olympic med