Japan Through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics Open Access
Edited By Barbara Holthus, Isaac Gagné, Wolfram Manzenreiter, Franz Waldenberger
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2020
eBook Published 23 April 2020
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
Pages 162 pages
eBook ISBN 9781003033905
SubjectsArea Studies, Sports and Leisure
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.
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|7 pages
Understanding Japan through the lens of Tokyo 2020
With Barbara Holthus, Isaac Gagné, Wolfram Manzenreiter, Franz Waldenberger
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chapter 9|6 pages
Herculean efforts
What the construction of the Olympic Stadium reveals about working conditions in Japan 1
With Steffen Heinrich
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chapter 10|7 pages
Tokyo 2020 and neighborhood transformation
Reworking the entrepreneurial city
With Ralph Lützeler
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chapter 12|5 pages
Tokyo’s architecture and urban structure
Change in an ever-changing city
With Florian Purkarthofer
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chapter 18|7 pages
Tokyo’s 1940 “Phantom Olympics” in public memory
When Japan chose war over the Olympics
With Torsten Weber
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chapter 19|7 pages
Upgrading Tokyo’s linguistic infrastructure for the 2020 Games
With Peter Backhaus
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chapter 21|7 pages
The Paralympic Games
Enabling sports and empowering disability
With Katharina Heyer
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chapter 23|6 pages
Games of romance?
Tokyo in search of love and Unity in Diversity
With Nora Kottmann
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chapter 24|2 pages
The 2020 Olympic mascot characters
Japan wants to make a difference
With Jan Lukas Kuhn
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chapter 25|6 pages
Olympic education
How Tokyo 2020 shapes body and mind in Japan
With Wolfram Manzenreiter
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chapter 27|6 pages
Volunteering Japan-style
“Field cast” for the Tokyo Olympics
With Barbara Holthus
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chapter 28|6 pages
The difference between zero and one
Voices from the Tokyo anti-Olympic movements
With Sonja Ganseforth
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chapter 31|6 pages
Olympic leverages
The struggle for sustainable food standards
With Sonja Ganseforth
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chapter 33|1 pages
The Olympic and Paralympic Games as a technology showcase
With Franz Waldenberger
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