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Japan through the lens of the Tokyo Olympics
"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 Gam...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Online access: OAPEN DOAB Directory of Open Access Books.
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1 online resource. |
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| Online Access: | Taylor & Francis https://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=none&isbn=9781000057713 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2019058164 EBSCOhost Full text available: 2020. OverDrive Excerpt Image https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/PublicFullRecord.aspx?p=7245121 EBSCOhost Taylor & Francis - Click here for access |
| Summary: | "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"-- |
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Open Access |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781000057713 1000057712 9781003033905 9781000057591 1003033903 9781000057652 1000057593 1000057658 036746957X 9780367469573 |
| Access: | Open Access |