Friday, February 14, 2020

Japan Focus Special Issue: Japan’s Olympic Summer Games - Past and Present

Here is the TOC of the open access journal Japan Focus' special issue on Japan’s Olympic Summer Games:


Introduction

Branding and Identity
1 - Jeff Kingston - Diversity Olympics Dogged by Controversy
2 - David Leheny - Opening a Storyline in the 2020 Olympics
3 - Gracia Liu-Farrer - Japan and Immigration: Looking Beyond the Tokyo
4 - Tessa Morris-Suzuki - Indigenous Rights and the ‘Harmony Olympics’ 
5 - Claire Maree - “LGBT issues” and the 2020 Games
6 - Ian Lynam - The Small Olympics

Past as Prologue
7 - Gerald Curtis - Celebrating the “New” Japan 
8 - Akiko Hashimoto - The Tokyo Olympic Stadium: Site of National Memory
9 - Asato Ikeda - The Tokyo Olympics: 1940/2020
10 - Robert Whiting - The 1964 Olympics
11 - Kazuhiko Togo - Unease about Tokyo 2020
12 - Roy Tomizawa - 1964: The Greatest Year in the History of Japan -- Three Reasons Why 
13 - Helen Macnaughtan - From the Witches of the Orient to the Blossoming Sevens: Volleyball and Rugby at the Tokyo Olympics

Environment

14 - Robin Kietlinski- Trash Islands: The Olympic Games and Tokyo’s Changing Environment
15 - Peter Matanle- Confronting the Olympic Paradox: Modernity and Environment at a Crossroads in Downtown Tokyo