Paul Dunscomb

The Crisis in Pro Baseball and Japan's Lost Decade (eBook, ePUB)

The Curious Resilience of Heisei Japan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines Japan's Heisei era through the lens of the crisis in Japanese professional baseball of 2004, challenging the narrative of decline which dominates the discourse on the period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000992663
• Artikelnr.: 68874694

Autorenporträt

Paul E. Dunscomb is Professor of East Asian History at the University of Alaska Anchorage, US. He is author of Japan's Siberian Intervention, 1918-1922: A Great Disobedience Against the People (2011), the first ever complete narrative of the event in English, and Japan Since 1945 (2014) for the Association for Asian Studies Key Issues in Asian Studies Series. He has written and presented extensively on matters relating to the history of Heisei Japan. His current research project marries his knowledge of Alaskan and Japanese history into a new and comprehensive look at how the Second World War affected the fate not only of Alaska and its peoples but also the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin and residents of Northern Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Squeeze 1. Baseball as Business within Postwar Japan's Political Economy
to 1992 2. Lost Decades: Troubles for Japan and NPB
1992-2003 3. The Storm Gathers
Then Breaks
January-June 2004 4. The Crisis Broadens
Then Deepens
June-July 2004 5. Unstoppable Forces Meet Immovable Objects
July-September 2004 6. The Strike
September 2004 7. The New Normal
September-December 2004 Conclusion. "When You Come to the Fork in the Road
Take it."