Japan, sport and society : tradition and change in a globalizing world / edited by Joseph Maguire and Masayoshi Nakayama

Published:: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Physical Description:: xii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators:: Maguire, Joseph A., 1956- and Nakayama, Masayoshi, 1949-

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Series:

Sport in the global society

Contents:

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.

Subject(s):

Sports—Social aspects—Japan
Globalization—Japan

ISBN:

0714653586 (hbk.)
0714682934 (pbk.)
0203504410 (ebook)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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