sentences:  The suspension was lifted in January 1963 after a visit to South Africa by Rous in order to investigate the state of football in the country.Rous declared that if the suspension were not lifted, football there would be discontinued, possibly to the point of no recovery.The next annual conference of FIFA in October 1964 took place in Tokyo and was attended by a larger contingent of representatives from African and Asian associations and here the suspension of South Africa's membership was re-imposed.