Japan, sport and society in a globalizing world / Joseph Maguire and Masayoshi Nakayama -- Innovation in martial arts / Yoshinobu Hamaguchi -- The emergence and development of Japanese school sport / Yuko Kusaka -- The Japanese baseball spirit and professional ideology / Koichi Kiku -- Economic development and the value aspect of sport / Masayoshi Nakayama -- Sustainable sport and environmental problems : the e-boat movement as a social experiment in green sport / Kanji Kotani -- Voluntary associations formed through sport spectatorship : a case study of professional baseball fan clubs / Hidesato Takahashi -- Playfulness and gender in Japanese modern society / Keiji Matsuda -- FIFA 2002 World Cup in Japan: the Japanese football phenomena in cultural contexts / Hitoshi Ebishima and Rieko Yamashita -- Physical cognition in sport : something of wisdom buried in modernization / Hideki Nishimura -- The changing field of Japanese sport / Takayuki Yamashita.
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The aim of this collection is to bring the work of Japanese scholars in the area of sport, culture and Japanese society to the attention of a wider audience. Work of this kind is, in fact, not new. In 1967, in the second volume of the International Review of Sport Sociology, the official publication of the recently formed International Committee for Sport Sociology (ICSS), Kyuzo Takenoshita published both a paper on 'The Social Structure of the Sport Population in Japan' and a separate overview of 'The Sociological Research Work of Sport in Japan'. In the latter paper, Takenoshita conclu.
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Title
Japan, sport and society.
International Standard Book Number
0714682934
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Globalization.
Sports-- Social aspects-- Japan.
Globalization.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.