Japan, Sport and Society: Tradition and Change in a Globalizing World

by Joseph Maguire (Editor), Masayoshi Nakayama (Editor)

Overview

Evolving for centuries in relative isolation, sport in Japan developed a unique character reflective of Japanese culture and society. In recent decades, Japan's drive towards cultural and economic modernization has consciously incorporated a modernization of its sports cultures. Japan, Sport and Society provides insights into this process, revealing the tensions between continuity and change, tradition and modernity, the local and the global in a culture facing the new economic and political realities of our modern world. The book explores three broad areas of interest:

• sport and modern society in Japan
• current issues in social reconstruction and reproduction in sport
• modernization, globalization and sport in Japan.

Providing unprecedented access to new work from Japanese scholars, and raising key questions of globalization and cultural identity, this text represents a fascinating resource for students and researchers of sport and society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714682938
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/15/2005
Series:	Sport in the Global Society
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Joseph Maguire

Table of Contents

Introduction: Japan, sport and society: Tradition and change in a globalizing world. Making Sport and Modern Japanese Society: 1. Innovation in martial arts: Forms of sport and modern Japanese society 2. The emergence and development of Japanese school sport 3. The Japanese baseball spirit and professional ideology

Social Reconstruction, Reproduction and Sport

Chapter Four
Economic development and the value aspect of sport

Chapter Five
Sustainable sport and environmental problems: The E-boat movement as a social experiment in green sport

Chapter Six
Voluntary associations formed through sport spectatorship: A case study of pro baseball fan club

Chapter Seven
Playfulness and gender in Japanese modern society

Modernization, Globalization and Sport: A Critical Examination

Chapter Eight
FIFA World Cup 2002: The Japanese football phenomena in cultural contexts

Chapter Nine
Physical Cognition in Sport: Something of wisdom buried in modernization

Chapter Ten
Globalization: The changing field of Japanese sport

Editorial Reviews

"Maguire (sociology of sport, Loughborough U., UK) and Nakayama (sport sociology, Shimane U., Japan) bring together ten research articles by Japanese scholars on issues of sport, culture, and Japanese society. The first group of articles discusses innovation in martial arts, the emergence and development of Japanese school sport, and the development of the Japanese baseball professional ideology. Sociological processes of social reconstruction and reproduction is the major theme of papers on sustainable sport and environmental problems, role of voluntary associations in the formation of sport spectatorship, and issues of gender and sport. The final group looks at Japanese sport in the context of modernization and globalization." —Reference & Research Book News

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