1st Edition
Sport, Memory and Nationhood in Japan Remembering the Glory Days
1. Introduction: Remembering the glory days of the nation: sport as lieu de memoire in Japan Andreas Niehaus, Ghent University, Belgium and Christian Tagsold, University Dusseldorf, Germany
2. Lieux de memoire/sites of memories and the Olympic Games: an introduction Gertrud Pfister, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
3. Swimming into memory: the Los Angeles Olympics (1932) as Japanese lieu de memoire Andreas Niehaus, Ghent University, Belgium
4. Remember to get back on your feet quickly: the Japanese women’s volleyball team at the 1964 Olympics as a ‘Realm of Memory’ Christian Tagsold, Dusseldorf University, Germany
5. One world one dream? Twenty-first century Japanese perspectives on hosting the Olympic Games Robin Kietlinski, Columbia University, USA
6. Tokyo’s 1964 Olympic design as a ‘realm of [design] memory’ Jilly Traganou, Parsons The New School for Design, USA
7. Koshien Stadium: performing national virtues and regional rivalries in a ‘theatre of sport’ William W. Kelly, Yale University, USA
8. From national event to local memory – World Cup 2002 Yoshio Takahashi, Tsukuba University, Japan
9. ‘By running. . . / by fighting. . . / by dying. . .’: remembering, glorifying, and forgetting Japanese Olympian war dead Aaron Skabelund, Brigham Young University, USA
10. ‘It was October 1964, when I met the demon for the first time’: Supo-kon manga as lieux de memoire Ikuo Abe, Tsukuba University, Japan
11. The professional wrestler Rikidozan as a site of memory Lee Thompson, Waseda University, Japan
12. Sports sites of memory in Japan’s cultures of remembrance and oblivion:collective remembrance is like swimming – in order to stay afloat you have to keep moving Wolfram Manzenreiter, University of Vienna, Austria and John Horne, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Biography
Andreas Niehaus is head of the Department of South and East Asian Studies at Ghent University, Belgium and has published on judo, the history of sports and body culture in Japan.
Christian Tagsold is research fellow at the Institute for Modern Japan, Dusseldorf University, Germany. He has published on Tokyo Olympics 1964, aging society in Japan, Japanese Gardens in the West and Japanese diasporas.
