Japan Through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics Open Access

ISBN-13: 9780367471682 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 146 str.

Barbara Holthus; Isaac Gagne; Wolfram Manzenreiter

Opis

This book situates the 2020 Tokyo Olympics within the social, economic and political challenges facing contemporary Japan.

Spis treści

1. Understanding Japan through the lens of Tokyo 2020, Barbara Holthus, Isaac Gagné, Wolfram Manzenreiter, Franz Waldenberger 2. Olympics and the media, Wolfram Manzenreiter 3. Skateboarding: "F*** the Olympics", Wolfram Manzenreiter 4. Political games, Axel Klein 5. Number games: The economic impact of Tokyo 2020, Franz Waldenberger 6. Climbing: New sport on the block, Wolfram Manzenreiter 7. Advertising the Games: Sponsoring a new era, Isaac Gagné 8. Karate: Bowing to the Olympics in style, Wolfram Manzenreiter 9. Herculean efforts: What the construction of the Olympic Stadium reveals about working conditions in Japan, Steffen Heinrich 10. Tokyo 2020 and neighborhood transformation: Reworking the entrepreneurial city, Ralph Lützeler 11. Ho(s)t city: Tokyo’s fight against the summer heat, Jan Lukas Kuhn 12. Tokyo’s architecture and urban structure: Change in an ever-changing city, Florian Purkarthofer 13. Success story: The 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Torsten Weber 14. San’ya 2020: From building to hosting the Tokyo Olympics, Hanno Jentzsch 15. Baseball/softball: One more homer for Japan, Wolfram Manzenreiter 16. Outdoor sports in the periphery: Far from the compact games, Daniel Kremers 17. Surfing: Taken with a grain of salt, Wolfram Manzenreiter 18. Tokyo’s 1940 "Phantom Olympics" in public memory: When Japan chose war over the Olympics, Torsten Weber 19. Upgrading Tokyo’s linguistic infrastructure for the 2020 Games, Peter Backhaus 20. Sexual minorities and the Olympics, Maki Hirayama 21. The Paralympic Games: Enabling sports and empowering disability, Katharina Heyer 22. Sex in the city, Maki Hirayama 23. Games of Romance? Tokyo in search of love and Unity in Diversity, Nora Kottmann 24. The 2020 Olympic mascot characters: Japan wants to make a difference, Jan Lukas Kuhn 25. Olympic education: How Tokyo 2020 shapes body and mind in Japan, Wolfram Manzenreiter 26. Sex in the Village, Maki Hirayama 27. Volunteering Japan-style: "Field cast" for the Tokyo Olympics, Barbara Holthus 28. The difference between zero and one: Voices from the Tokyo anti-Olympic movements, Sonja Ganseforth 29. Beyond 2020: Post-Olympic pessimism in Japanese cinema, Jan Lukas Kuhn 30. Tokyo 2020 from the regional sidelines, Isaac Gagné 31. Olympic leverages: The struggle for sustainable food standards, Sonja Ganseforth 32. Security for the Tokyo Olympics, Sebastian Polak-Rottmann 33. The Olympic and Paralympic Games as a technology showcase, Franz Waldenberger 34. Tokyo 2020: Connecting the past with the future, Round table discussion with Munehiko Harada, John Horne, Wolfram Manzenreiter