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The crisis in pro baseball and Japan's lost decade : the curious resilience of Heisei Japan / Paul E. Dunscomb.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunscomb, Paul E., 1963- author.
- Series:
- Routledge contemporary Japan series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball--Japan--History.
- Baseball.
- Baseball--Economic aspects--Japan.
- Japan--Economic conditions--1989-.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2024.
- Biography/History:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Baseball as business within postwar Japan's political economy, to 1992
- Lost decades : troubles for Japan and NPB, 1992-2003
- The storm gathers then breaks, January-June 2004
- The crisis deepens, then broadens, June-July 2004
- Unstoppable forces meet immovable objects, July- August 2004
- Chapter six: the strike, September 2004
- Chapter seven: the new normal, September-December 2004
- Conclusion: "when you come to the fork in the road, take it.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 09, 2024).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Dunscomb, Paul E., 1963- Crisis in pro baseball and Japan's lost decade
- ISBN:
- 9781003415510
- 1003415512
- 9781000992656
- 1000992659
- 9781000992663
- 1000992667
- Publisher Number:
- 40032159052
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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