1st Edition

Basketball in Japan Shooting for the Stars

By Aaron L. Miller Copyright 2025
290 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Through a study of basketball in Japan, this book aims to help readers better understand the historical formation and contemporary reformation of cultural identity in Japan. This reformation includes the process of reconciling the perceived differences between basketball in Japan and basketball in the West, the process of reconciling how perceptions of one’s body are shaped in a globally... Read more

1. (Be)Longing  2. Thinking Basketball  3. Boys, Be Ambitious  4. DNA  5. Waiting for a Male Hardwood Hero  6. Inferiority and Guts  7. Break the Border

Biography

Aaron L. Miller is Lecturer in the Department of Kinesiology at California State University, East Bay, USA.