Sport, Memory And Nationhood In Japan: Remembering The Glory Days (Sport In The Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives)
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Paperback/English
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Description
This book clarifies and verifies the role sport has as an alternative marker in understanding and mapping memory in Japan, by applying the concept of lieux de memoire (realms of memory) to sport in Japan. Japanese history and national construction have not been short of sports landmarks since the end of the nineteenth century. Western-style sports were introduced into Japan in order to modernize the country and develop a culture of consciousness about bodies resembling that of the Western world.
