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Japanese sports [electronic resource] : a history / Allen Guttmann, Lee Thompson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2001.Description: ix, 307 p., [16] p. of plates : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 796/.0952 21
LOC classification:
  • GV655 .G88 2001
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Contents:
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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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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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