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{{Short description|Asian multi-sport event between 1913–1934}}
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|formation = [[1913 Far Eastern Championship Games|1913]] in [[Manila]], [[Insular Government of the Philippine Islands|Philippine Islands]]
|recurrence = 2 years
|last = [[1934 Far Eastern Championship Games|1934]] in [[Manila]], [[Insular Government of the Philippine Islands|Philippine Islands]]
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The '''Far Eastern Championship Games''' (also known as the '''Far Eastern Championships''', '''Far Eastern Games''' or '''Far East Games''') was an Asian [[multi-sport event]] considered to be a precursor to the [[Asian Games]].

== History ==
[[File:1927 Far Eastern Games.jpg|thumb|The Japanese delegation at the 1927 Far Eastern Games]]
In 1913, [[Elwood Brown]], president of the Philippine Amateur Athletic Association and [[Manila Carnival]] Games, proposed the creation of the "''Far Eastern Olympic Games''" to China and Japan. It was at that time that [[Governor-General of the Philippines|Governor-General]] [[William Cameron Forbes]] was the president of the [[Philippine Olympic Committee|Philippine Amateur Athletic Federation]] from 1911-1913. Governor-General Forbes formed the Far Eastern Olympic Association.

Brown collaborated with [[J. Howard Crocker]] and [[YMCA]] from missionaries in China, Japan and the Philippines, to establish the Far Eastern Championship Games.<ref>{{cite thesis|last=Keyes|first=Mary Eleanor|title=John Howard Crocker LL. D., 1870–1959|publisher=[[University of Western Ontario]]|date=October 1964|location=London, Ontario|oclc=61578234|page=52}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Disappearance of German Merchantmen a Sore Blow|last=Jones|first=Gordon R.|date=October 29, 1914|newspaper=[[Brantford Expositor]]|location=Brantford, Ontario|page=10|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brantford-weekly-expositor-crocker-1/123001318/|access-date=May 28, 2023|archive-date=April 21, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230421164729/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brantford-weekly-expositor-crocker-1/123001318/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The first event was held on the Manila Carnival grounds (later the [[Rizal Memorial Sports Complex]]) in [[Malate, Manila|Malate]], [[Manila]], [[Philippines]] on February 4, 1913 and was known as the "First Oriental Olympic Games". Forbes was also the one who formally declare the games open.<ref name=DB>Bell, Daniel (2003). ''Encyclopedia of International Games''. McFarland and Company, Inc. Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina. {{ISBN|0-7864-1026-4}}.</ref> Six countries participated in the eight-day event: the host country then-named [[Philippine Islands]], [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]], [[Empire of Japan]], [[Federated Malay States|British East Indies]] (Malaysia), [[Kingdom of Thailand]] and British crown colony [[Hong Kong]].

In 1915, the name changed to Far Eastern Championship Games and the association to Far Eastern Athletic Association when the event was held at [[Hongkou Park]] in [[Shanghai]], China.{{sfn|Morris|2004|p=25-30}} They were held there again in 1921.{{sfn|Morris|2004|p=89}} The games were held every two years except in 1929 when Japan decided to delay the project to 1930. The FEAA decided to change the time table to four years and the Philippine Islands hosted the tenth games in 1934. [[Dutch East Indies]] (Indonesia) joined in the 1934 FECG.

The 1934 edition was held in a period of dispute between China and Japan, following the [[Japanese invasion of Manchuria]] in 1931. Inclusion of people from this region in the games caused controversy between the two member nations, which resulted in the break-up of the Far Eastern Athletic Association. In September 1937, Japan invaded China with the [[Marco Polo Bridge Incident]] and started the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]] (which later became part of [[World War II]]), thus the planned games in 1938 were cancelled.<ref name=DB/>

==Editions==
[[Image:FECG1923BB.jpg|250px|thumb|right|[[1923 Far Eastern Championship Games]].]]
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Year
!Games
!Dates
!Host city
!Host nation
|-
|align=center|1913
|align=center|'''[[1913 Far Eastern Championship Games|1]]'''
|3–7 February
|[[Manila]]
|{{Flagdeco|United States|1912|size=25px}} [[Insular Government of the Philippine Islands|Philippines]]
|-
|align=center|1915
|align=center|'''[[1915 Far Eastern Championship Games|2]]'''
|15–21 May
|[[Shanghai]]
|{{flag|Republic of China (1912–1949)|1912|name=China}}
|-
|align=center|1917
|align=center|'''[[1917 Far Eastern Championship Games|3]]'''
|8–12 May
|[[Tokyo]]
|{{Flagdeco|Japan|1870|size=25px}} [[Empire of Japan|Japan]]
|-
|align=center|1919
|align=center|'''[[1919 Far Eastern Championship Games|4]]'''
|12–16 May
|[[Manila]]
|{{Flagdeco|Philippines|1919}} [[Insular Government of the Philippine Islands|Philippines]]
|-
|align=center|1921
|align=center|'''[[1921 Far Eastern Championship Games|5]]'''
|30 May–3 June
|[[Shanghai]]
|{{flag|Republic of China (1912–1949)|1912|name=China}}
|-
|align=center|1923
|align=center|'''[[1923 Far Eastern Championship Games|6]]'''
|21–25 May
|[[Osaka]]
|{{Flagdeco|Japan|1870|size=25px}} [[Empire of Japan|Japan]]
|-
|align=center|1925
|align=center|'''[[1925 Far Eastern Championship Games|7]]'''
|17–22 May
|[[Manila]]
|{{Flagdeco|Philippines|1919}} [[Insular Government of the Philippine Islands|Philippines]]
|-
|align=center|1927
|align=center|'''[[1927 Far Eastern Championship Games|8]]'''
|28–31 August
|[[Shanghai]]
|{{flag|Republic of China (1912–1949)|1912|name=China}}
|-
|align=center|1930
|align=center|'''[[1930 Far Eastern Championship Games|9]]'''
|24–27 May
|[[Tokyo]]
|{{Flagdeco|Japan|1870|size=25px}} [[Empire of Japan|Japan]]
|-
|align=center|1934
|align=center|'''[[1934 Far Eastern Championship Games|10]]'''
|16–20 May
|[[Manila]]
|{{Flagdeco|Philippines|1919}} [[Insular Government of the Philippine Islands|Philippines]]
|-
|align=center|1938
|align=center|'''[[1938 Far Eastern Championship Games|11]]'''
|Cancelled
|[[Osaka]]
|{{Flagdeco|Japan|1870|size=25px}} [[Empire of Japan|Japan]]
|}

==Sports==
A total of nine different sports were contested over the lifetime of the competition. Eight of the sports featured on each programmes of the games, with the ninth sport – [[cycling (sport)|cycling]] – being held once only, in 1915.<ref name=DB/>
{{columns-list|colwidth=22em|
*{{GamesSport|Athletics}}
*{{GamesSport|Baseball}}
*{{GamesSport|Basketball}}
*{{GamesSport|Cycling}}
*{{GamesSport|Diving}}
*{{GamesSport|Football}}
*{{GamesSport|Swimming}}
*{{GamesSport|Tennis}}
*{{GamesSport|Volleyball}}
}}

==Participating nations==
{{div col|colwidth=22em}}
*{{flag|Republic of China (1912–1949)|name=Republic of China}} (all editions)
*{{flag|Dutch East Indies}} (1934 only)
*{{flagdeco|Malayan Union}} [[Federated Malay States]] (1913 only)
*{{flag|Hong Kong|1959}} (1913 only)
*{{flag|India|British}} (1930 only)
*{{flag|Empire of Japan|1870}} (all editions)
*{{Flagdeco|Philippines|1919}} [[Insular Government of the Philippine Islands|Philippines]] (all editions)
*{{flag|Thailand|1855|name=Kingdom of Siam}} (1913 only)
{{div col end}}

== See also ==
* [[Asian Games]]
* [[East Asian Games]]
* [[Southeast Asian Games]]
* [[West Asian Games]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

===Sources===
* {{cite book
|last=Morris |first=Andrew D.
|title=Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China
|year=2004
|publisher=[[University of California Press]]
|isbn=9780520240841
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bs1Qw7yv-DQC
}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140714145335/https://www.unibw.de/geschichte/neueste/researchprojects/buildingasiannations Far Eastern Championship Games and Asian Games Research Project]
* [http://www.la84foundation.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1926/BODE3/BODE3i.pdf The Far Eastern Championship Games] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080411151038/http://www.la84foundation.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1926/BODE3/BODE3i.pdf|date=2008-04-11}}

==External links==
* [http://www.calpoly.edu/~admorris/TiyuPhotosFECG.html Far Eastern Championship Games in pictures]
* [http://ejmas.com/jalt/jaltart_abe_0600.htm Japan, China and the Far Eastern Championship Games]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110824094024/http://philippinebasketballteam.com/islanders/ Philippines Roster in Far Eastern Championship Games]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120211171150/http://fpok.upi.edu/the_origin_asiangames.htm A brief history of the Games] (archived)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20151208060808/http://www.unibw.de/geschichte/neueste/researchprojects/buildingasiannations Stefan Hübner Research on games in Asia]
*[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725886.2021.1898747 A Historical Article on the Jewish Delegation from Palestine]

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Ajay Kumar at 05:22, 29 August 2023