Japan Focus. Special Issue: Japan’s Olympic Summer Games - Past and Present, Part II

(Japan Focus is an excellent open access journal)
 
Introduction for Part II by Jeff Kingston

Olympic Moment
1 - William Kelly - Bringing the Circus to Town: An Anatomy of the Olympic Movement
2 - Stephen Wade - Did the 2016 Olympics change Rio de Janeiro? Not Much - At Least Not for the Good

Fool’s Gold
3 - David McNeill - Spinning the Rings: The Media and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
4 - Michael A. Leeds - Can Cities Bring Home the Gold?: What Economic Theory Tells Us about Hosting the Olympic Games
5 - Eva Marikova Leeds - Tokyo 2020: Public Cost and Private Benefit
 
Paralympics
6 - Anoma P. van der Veere - The Tokyo Paralympic Superhero: Manga and Narratives of Disability in Japan
7 - Susan S. Lee - Promises of Accessibility for the Tokyo 2020 Games

Looking Back
8 - Mark Schreiber - 1940 Tokyo: The Olympiad that Never Was 
9 - Christian Tagsold - Symbolic Transformation: The 1964 Tokyo Games Reconsidered

Dissenting Opinions
10 - Taro Nettleton - Light, Currency, Spectacle, and War: Kobayashi Erika’s She Waited (2019)
11 - Koide Hideaki, translated by Norma Field - The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and the Tokyo Olympics
12 - Shaun Burnie - Radiation Disinformation and Human Rights Violations at the Heart of Fukushima and the Olympic Games
13 - Akihiro Ogawa - As If Nothing Had Occurred: Anti-Tokyo Olympics Protests and Concern Over Radiation Exposure
14 - Sonja Ganseforth - Anti-Olympic rallying points, public alienation, and transnational alliances 
15 - William Andrews - Playful Protests and Contested Urban Space: the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Protest Movement 
16 - Alexis Dudden - An Opportunity for Japan to Change People’s Perception 
17 - Sean Michael Wilson, illustrated by Makiko Kodama - ‘Tokyo and Olympics Guide’