Sport, Memory and Nationhood in Japan : Remembering the Glory Days (Hardcover)

1. Introduction: Remembering the glory days of the nation: sport as lieu de memoire in Japan Andreas Niehaus and Christian Tagsold  2. Lieux de memoire/sites of memories and the Olympic Games: an introduction Gertrud Pfister  3. Swimming into memory: the Los Angeles Olympics (1932) as Japanese lieu de memoire Andreas Niehaus  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  5. One world one dream? Twenty-first century Japanese perspectives on hosting the Olympic Games Robin Kietlinski  6. Tokyo’s 1964 Olympic design as a ‘realm of [design] memory’ Jilly Traganou  7. Koshien Stadium: performing national virtues and regional rivalries in a ‘theatre of sport’ William W. Kelly  8. From national event to local memory ? World Cup 2002 Yoshio Takahashi  9. ‘By running. . . / by fighting. . . / by dying. . .’: remembering, glorifying, and forgetting Japanese Olympian war dead Aaron Skabelund  10. ‘It was October 1964, when I met the demon for the first time’: Supo-kon manga as lieux de memoire Ikuo Abe  11. The professional wrestler Rikidozan as a site of memory Lee Thompson  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 and John Horne