The Handbook of Sport and Japan presents a fascinating collection of established and new scholarship, a valuable text for readers who want to use sport as lens to look more closely into a nation. The handbook draws on a diversity of perspectives, disciplines and experiences all of which respond to the challenge of including sport in the study of Japan. The chapters in the handbook convey what taking part in sport feels and looks like, highlighting the sporting accomplishments of Japanese athletes and teams, while also reflecting how the sporting experience interacts with economics, diplomacy, media, culture, demographics, gender, ethnicity and identity. Contributions pose key questions about what conclusions can be made when sport is placed in the foreground of key events in Japanese history, including pre-war industrialisation and empire building, to the post-war economic boom, the 2011 Tohoku Disaster and the recent COVID-19 pandemic.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Sport and Japan
- Verity Postlethwaite, Emily Barrass Chapman, Helen Macnaughtan
- Part 1: Historical Developments of Various Key and Emerging Sports in Japan
- 1. Baseball: Japan’s National Pastime
- 2. A Survey of Rugby in Japan: From Early Play in 1864 to Hosting the World Cup in 2019
- Mike Galbraith and Helen Macnaughtan
- 3. Crafting Selves, Reproducing Capital: A Century or so of Japanese Golf
- 4. “Boys, be ambitious”: A Brief History and Cultural Analysis of Japanese Basketball
- 5. The Development and Popularity of Volleyball in Japan: The Impact of the “Witches of the Orient”
- Iwona Merklejn and Helen Macnaughtan
- 6. The Gender-related Discursive Function of Japanese Football since Its Professionalization
- Yunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar
- 7. In the Ring and Beyond the Apron: Women’s Pro Wrestling as Physical Performance
- 8. Surfing in Japan: From itago Riding to Surfing
- 9. The Beauty of Winter Sports: The Popularity of Figure Skating in Japan
- Part 2: Relationships between Elements of the State, Society and Sporting Experiences in Japan
- 10. From Three-Legged to Two-Legged Races: The Rise of Competitive Women’s Sport in Japan (1910s–1920s)
- 11. Queer and Transgender Sport in Japan: Seitekishōsūsha (Gender and Sexual Minority) Athletes and Their Sporting Experiences
- 12. Tokyo’s (Non)-Olympics: 1940, 1964, 2020(1)
- 13. The Paralympic Movement, Disability, and Sports in Japan
- 14. The Influence of Kanō Jigorō: From Higher Education to the Japanese Olympic Movement
- Helen Symons and Taro Obayashi
- 15. Intangible Legacy: The Memories and Continuities between the 1964 and 2020(1) Tokyo Olympic Games, Focusing on the Olympic Torch Relay
- Ai Aramaki and Geoffery Z. Kohe
- 16. Winter Sporting Cultures and Japan
- Takayuki Yamashita, Verity Postlethwaite and Győző Molnár
- Index
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