Japan, sport, and society
Subtitle: tradition and change in a globalizing world
By: edited by Joseph Maguire and Masayoshi Nakayama.
Contributors: Maguire, Joseph A., 1956-; Nakayama, Masayoshi, 1949-
Series: Sport in the global society
Publisher: F. Cass; Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Sports -- Social aspects -- Japan; Globalization -- Japan
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Japan, sport, and society in a globalizing world / Joseph Maguire and Masayoshi Nakayama; title: Innovation in martial arts : forms of sport and modern japanese society / Yoshinobu Hamaguchi; title: The emergence and development of Japanese school sport / Yuko Kusaka; title: The Japanese baseball spirit and professional ideology : social reconstruction, reproduction, and sport / Kōichi Kiku; title: Economic development and the value aspect of sport / Masayoshi Nakayama; title: Sustainable sport and environmental problems : the e-boat movement as a social experiment in green sport / Kanji Kotani; title: Voluntary associations formed through sport spectatorship : a case study of pro baseball fan club / Hidesato Takahashi; title: Playfulness and gender in Japanese modern society : modernization, globalization, and sport, a critical examination / Keiji Matsuda; title: FIFA World Cup 2002 : the Japanese football phenomena in cultural contexts / Hitoshi Ebishima and Rieko Yamashita; title: Physical cognition in sport : something of wisdom buried in modernization / Hideki Nishimura; title: Globalization : the changing field of Japanese sport / Takayuki Yamashita.