Japanese Sports: A History 9780824863128
In this first synthetic, comprehensive survey of Japanese sports in English, the authors are attentive to the complex an
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Sporting Practices Before the Black Ships
1. Sumō, Ball Games, and Feats of Strength
2. Martial Techniques
Part II. Modern Times
3. The Arrival and Diffusion of Western Sports
4. The Modernization of Indigenous Sports
5. Japan at the Olympics: 1912–1940
6. From Taishō Democracy to Japanese Fascism
Part III. Postwar Sports
7. Rising from the Ashes
8. Japan at the Olympics: 1952–1998
9. New Directions
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
