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The authors also register their skepticism about the use of the samurai tradition to explain Japan's success in sports. Special attention is given to Meiji-era Japan's frequently ambivalent adoption and adaptation of European and American sports -- a particularly telling example of Japan's love-hate relationship with the West. The book goes on to describe the history of physical education in the school system, the emergence of amateur and professional leagues, the involvement of business and the media in sports promotion, and Japan's participation in the Olympics.
Japanese Sports : A History
by Guttmann, Allen; Thompson, LeeFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-08-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Hawaii Pr
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Summary
In this first synthetic, comprehensive survey of Japanese sports in English, the authors are attentive to the complex and fascinating interaction of traditional and modern elements. In the course of tracing the emergence and development of sumo, the martial arts, and other traditional sports from their origins to the present, they demonstrate that some cherished "ancient" traditions were, in fact, invented less than a century ago.
Author Biography
Allen Guttmann is a sports historian who has been writing on the topic since 1978. In 2000 he became the first recipient of the International Olympic Committee President's Award for Sports Studies Lee Thompson is professor of sociology at Osaka University. He has lectured and published in both English and Japanese on Japanese sports and has appeared as a guest on sumo broadcasts on Japanese national television
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | vii | ||||
| Introduction | 1 | (12) | |||
| Part I Sporting Practices Before the Black Ships | |||||
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13 | (29) | |||
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42 | (25) | |||
| Part II Modern Times | |||||
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67 | (29) | |||
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96 | (21) | |||
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117 | (11) | |||
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128 | (35) | |||
| Part III Postwar Sports | |||||
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163 | (30) | |||
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193 | (18) | |||
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211 | (22) | |||
| Notes | 233 | (40) | |||
| Bibliography | 273 | (20) | |||
| Index | 293 |
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