Japan Through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics Open Access

By: Barbara Holthus and Wolfram Manzenreiter and Franz Waldenberger and Isaac Gagné

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781000057713
Related ISBNs:: 9781003033905, 9780367469573, 9780367469573, 9780367471682, 9780367471682
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 04/25/20
Copyrighted By:: Barbara Holthus, Isaac Gagné, Wolfram Manzenreiter, Franz Waldenberger
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Sports, Social Studies
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Barbara Holthus
Edited by:: Isaac Gagné
Edited by:: Wolfram Manzenreiter
Edited by:: Franz Waldenberger