More than a half a century has passed since the Asian Games were last held in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, but Koji Sakurai vividly recalls Japan's dominance.Sakurai, who was captain of the Japanese team at the 1962 games, says Asia's biggest sporting event was an important "passing point" before Tokyo staged its first Summer Olympics two years later.Sakurai imagines that many of the more than 10,000 athletes from 45 countries and regions competing in the 2018 Asian Games will be thinking the way he did back in 1962."If you can't compete well in Asia, there is no way you can compete i…READ FULL ARTICLE
