Guttmann, Allen.
Japanese sports a history / [electronic resource] : Allen Guttmann, Lee Thompson. - Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2001. - ix, 307 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-291) and index.
Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Sporting Practices Before the Black Ships -- 1 Sum6, Ball Games, and Feats of Strength -- 2 Martial Techniques -- Part II Modern Times -- 3 The Arrival and Diffusion of Western Sports -- 4 The Modernization of Indigenous Sports -- 5 Japan at the Olympics: 1912-1940 -- 6 From Taisho Democracy to Japanese Fascism -- Part III Postwar Sports -- 7 Rising from the Ashes -- 8 Japan at the Olympics: 1952-1998 -- 9 New Directions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Plates follow page 150.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2010.
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Sports--History.--Japan
Electronic books.
GV655 / .G88 2001eb
796/.0952
Japanese sports a history / [electronic resource] : Allen Guttmann, Lee Thompson. - Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2001. - ix, 307 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-291) and index.
Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Sporting Practices Before the Black Ships -- 1 Sum6, Ball Games, and Feats of Strength -- 2 Martial Techniques -- Part II Modern Times -- 3 The Arrival and Diffusion of Western Sports -- 4 The Modernization of Indigenous Sports -- 5 Japan at the Olympics: 1912-1940 -- 6 From Taisho Democracy to Japanese Fascism -- Part III Postwar Sports -- 7 Rising from the Ashes -- 8 Japan at the Olympics: 1952-1998 -- 9 New Directions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Plates follow page 150.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2010.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Sports--History.--Japan
Electronic books.
GV655 / .G88 2001eb
796/.0952