Japan through the lens of the Tokyo Olympics / edited by Barbara Holthus, Isaac Gagné, Wolfram Manzenreiter and Franz Waldenberger .

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holthus, Barbara G., editor.

Gagné, Isaac, editor.

Manzenreiter, Wolfram, editor.

Waldenberger, Franz, 1961- editor.

Routledge (Firm)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Olympics--Planning.

Olympics.

Olympics--Political aspects--Japan--Tokyo.

Olympics--Economic aspects--Japan--Tokyo.

Olympics--Social aspects--Japan--Tokyo.

Olympics--Security measures--Japan--Tokyo--Planning.

Popular culture--Japan--Tokyo.

Popular culture.

Japan--Social life and customs.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Understanding Japan through the lens of Tokyo 2020 / Barbara Holthus, Isaac Gagné, Wolfram Manzenreiter, Franz Waldenberger

Olympics and the media / Wolfram Manzenreiter

Skateboarding: "F*** the Olympics" / Wolfram Manzenreiter

Political games / Axel Klein

Number games: The economic impact of Tokyo 2020 / Franz Waldenberger

Climbing: New sport on the block / Wolfram Manzenreiter

Advertising the games: Sponsoring a new era / Isaac Gagné

Karate: Bowing to the Olympics in style / Wolfram Manzenreiter

Herculean efforts: What the construction of the Olympic Stadium reveals about working conditions in Japan / Steffen Heinrich

Tokyo 2020 and neighborhood transformation: Reworking the entrepreneurial city / Ralph Lützeler

Ho(s)t city: Tokyo's fight against the summer heat / Jan Lukas Kuhn

Tokyo's architecture and urban structure: Change in an ever-changing city / Florian Purkarthofer

Success story: The 1964 Tokyo Olympics / Torsten Weber

San'ya 2020: From building to hosting the Tokyo Olympics / Hanno Jentzsch

Baseball/softball: One more homer for Japan / Wolfram Manzenreiter

Outdoor sports in the periphery: Far from the compact games / Daniel Kremers

Surfing: Taken with a grain of salt / Wolfram Manzenreiter

Tokyo's 1940 "Phantom Olympics" in public memory: When Japan chose war over the Olympics / Torsten Weber

Upgrading Tokyo's linguistic infrastructure for the 2020 Games / Peter Backhaus

Sexual minorities and the Olympics / Maki Hirayama

The Paralympic Games: Enabling sports and empowering disability / Katharina Heyer

Sex in the city / Maki Hirayama

Games of Romance? Tokyo in search of love and unity in diversity / Nora Kottmann

The 2020 Olympic mascot characters: Japan wants to make a difference / Jan Lukas Kuhn

Olympic education: How Tokyo 2020 shapes body and mind in Japan / Wolfram Manzenreiter

Sex in the village / Maki Hirayama

Volunteering Japan-style: "Field cast" for the Tokyo Olympics / Barbara Holthus

The difference between zero and one: Voices from the Tokyo anti-Olympic movements / Sonja Ganseforth

Beyond 2020: Post-Olympic pessimism in Japanese cinema / Jan Lukas Kuhn

Tokyo 2020 from the regional sidelines / Isaac Gagné

Olympic leverages: The struggle for sustainable food standards / Sonja Ganseforth

Security for the Tokyo Olympics / Sebastian Polak-Rottmann

The Olympic and Paralympic Games as a technology showcase / Franz Waldenberger

Tokyo 2020: Connecting the past with the future / Round table discussion with Munehiko Harada, John Horne, Wolfram Manzenreiter.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9781003033905

1003033903

OCLC:

1137737566

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003033905