Japanese sports [electronic resource] : a history / Allen Guttmann, Lee Thompson.
By: Guttmann, Allen.
Contributor(s): Thompson, Lee (Lee Austin) | ebrary, Inc.
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BookPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2001Description: ix, 307 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Sports -- Japan -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 796/.0952 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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.
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