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Japanese Grand Prix🇯🇵 Suzuka, Japan
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Japan Open Tennis Championships🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan
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Rally Japan🇯🇵 Nagoya, Japan
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Celebrated in Japan and in many other countries.
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SportsPhoto credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Tokyo Marathon: Runneroflife, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Dakar Rally: Rally Dakar 2006 9.jpg : Dakar organization derivative work: Lošmi ( t, Public domain, source
- Emperor's Cup: Ohtani tanya, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- The Open Championship: SN#1 (Steven Newton) flickr.com, CC BY 2.0, source
- Chess Olympiad: Presidential Press and Information Office, CC BY 4.0, source
- Japanese Grand Prix: MIKI Yoshihito, CC BY 2.0, source
- World Nomad Games: Save the Dream, CC BY 2.0, source
- Spengler Cup: Alaney2k, CC BY 3.0, source
- Rally Japan: oisa, CC BY 2.0, source
- Pan Pacific Open: Arne Müseler, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, source
- Japan Cup: Goki, CC BY-SA 3.0, source