The coronavirus outbreak has left the sports world in a state of suspended animation, with the 2020 Tokyo Olympics among major events put on hold.

But while Tokyo must wait until next year to put on its second Summer Games, it is no stranger to adversity when it comes to staging one of sport's premier events: The 1964 Tokyo Olympics — the first-ever Olympics held in Asia — faced great challenges from its inception.

Roy Tomizawa, a native of Queens, New York, has chronicled that struggle in his book titled, "1964 — The Greatest Year in the History of Japan: How the Tokyo Olympics Symbolized Japan's Miraculous Rise from the Ashes," released last year with a Japanese edition about to hit the shelves.