Marathon Japan : distance racing and civic culture / Thomas R.H. Havens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Havens, Thomas R. H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marathon running--Japan--History.

Marathon running.

Relay racing--Japan--History.

Relay racing.

Sports and state--Japan.

Sports and state.

History.

Japan.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 227 : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2015]

Summary:

Based on extensive research in government documents, travel records, and accounts by frequent park visitors, Parkscapes is the first book in any language to examine the history of both urban and national parks of Japan. As an account of how Japan's experience of spatial modernity challenges current thinking about protection and use of the nonhuman environment globally, the book will appeal widely to readers of spatial and environmental history as well as those interested in modern Japan and its many inviting green spaces. This strikingly original book examines how sport and ideas of physicality have shaped the politics and culture of modern Laos. Viewing the country's extraordinary transitions-from French colonialism to royalist nationalism to revolutionary socialism to the modern development state-through the lens of physical culture, Simon Creak's lively and incisive narrative illuminates a nation that has no reputation in sport and is typically viewed, even from within, as a country of cheerful but lazy people. Book jacket.

Contents:

The culture of running in Japan

Racing to catch up

A galaxy of distance runners

Distance running as a commodity

"Greater depth, more women": marathons and ekidens in the 1990s

From peak to plateau: elite runners in the 2000s

Running for everyone.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-218) and index.

ISBN:

9780824841010

0824841018

OCLC:

897042185