Japan Through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics Open Access (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Holthus, Barbara; Waldenberger, Franz; Manzenreiter, Wolfram; Gagné, Isaac

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Produktbeschreibung

This book situates the 2020 Tokyo Olympics within the social, economic, and political challenges facing contemporary Japan.

Using the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as a lens into the city and the country as a whole, the stellar line up of contributors offer hidden insights and new perspectives on the Games. These include city planning, cultural politics, financial issues, language use, security, education, volunteerism, and construction work. The chapters then go on to explore the many stakeholders, institutions, citizens, interest groups, and protest groups involved, and feature the struggle over Tokyo's extreme summer heat, food standards, the implementation of diversity around disabilities, sexual minorities, and technological innovations. Giving short glimpses into the new Olympic sports, this book also analyses the role of these sports in Japanese society.



Japan Through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics will be of huge interest to anyone attending the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020. It will also be useful to students and scholars of the Olympics and the sociology of sport, as well as Japanese culture and society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000057713
• Artikelnr.: 59276252

Autorenporträt

Barbara Holthus, Ph.D., is a sociologist and deputy director of the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo, Japan. Her main research interests include marriage and the family, childcare, happiness and well-being, media, as well as demographic change. Publications include Life Course, Happiness and Well-being in Japan (2017, Routledge, ed. with W. Manzenreiter). Isaac Gagné, Ph.D., a cultural anthropologist, is a senior research fellow at the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo, Japan and managing editor of Contemporary Japan. He is a cultural anthropologist working on mental health and social welfare, morality and ethics, and religion. Publications include "Religious globalization and reflexive secularization in a Japanese new religion" (2017, Japan Review). Wolfram Manzenreiter is professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. His research is concerned with social and anthropological aspects of sports, emotions, rural Japan, and transnational networks of the Japanese diaspora. Publications include Sport and Body Politics in Japan (2014, Routledge). Franz Waldenberger is an economist and director of the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo, Japan. His research focuses on the Japanese Economy in comparative perspective. Recent publications include "Society 5.0. Japanese Ambitions and Initiatives" in The Digital Future (2018, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Understanding Japan through the lens of Tokyo 2020 2. Olympics and the
media 3. Skateboarding: "F*** the Olympics" 4. Political games 5. Number
games: The economic impact of Tokyo 2020 6. Climbing: New sport on the
block 7. Advertising the Games: Sponsoring a new era 8. Karate: Bowing to
the Olympics in style 9. Herculean efforts: What the construction of the
Olympic Stadium reveals about working conditions in Japan 10. Tokyo 2020
and neighborhood transformation: Reworking the entrepreneurial city 11.
Ho(s)t city: Tokyo's fight against the summer heat 12. Tokyo's architecture
and urban structure: Change in an ever-changing city 13. Success story: The
1964 Tokyo Olympics 14. San'ya 2020: From building to hosting the Tokyo
Olympics 15. Baseball/softball: One more homer for Japan 16. Outdoor sports
in the periphery: Far from the compact games 17. Surfing: Taken with a
grain of salt 18. Tokyo's 1940 "Phantom Olympics" in public memory: When
Japan chose war over the Olympics 19. Upgrading Tokyo's linguistic
infrastructure for the 2020 Games 20. Sexual minorities and the Olympics
21. The Paralympic Games: Enabling sports and empowering disability 22. Sex
in the city 23. Games of Romance? Tokyo in search of love and Unity in
Diversity 24. The 2020 Olympic mascot characters: Japan wants to make a
difference 25. Olympic education: How Tokyo 2020 shapes body and mind in
Japan 26. Sex in the Village 27. Volunteering Japan-style: "Field cast" for
the Tokyo Olympics 28. The difference between zero and one: Voices from the
Tokyo anti-Olympic movements 29. Beyond 2020: Post-Olympic pessimism in
Japanese cinema 30. Tokyo 2020 from the regional sidelines 31. Olympic
leverages: The struggle for sustainable food standards 32. Security for the
Tokyo Olympics 33. The Olympic and Paralympic Games as a technology
showcase 34. Tokyo 2020: Connecting the past with the future