Japan, sport, and society :  tradition and change in a globalizing world / 
edited by Joseph Maguire and Masayoshi Nakayama. 
 - xii, 180p. 
 - Sport in the global society .
 - Sport in the global society. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction : Japan, sport and society in a globalizing world /  Making of sport and modern Japanese society --  Innovation in martial arts /  The emergence and development of Japanese school sport /  The Japanese baseball spirit and professional ideology /  Social reconstruction, reproduction and sport --  Economic development and the value aspect of sport /  Sustainable sport and environmental problems : the E-boat movement as a social experiment in green sport /  Voluntary associations formed through sport spectatorship : a case study of professional baseball fan clubs /  Playfulness and gender in modern Japanese society /  Modernization, globalization and sport : a critical examination --  FIFA 2002 World Cup in Japan : the Japanese football phenomenon in cultural contexts /  Physical cognition in sport : wisdom buried in modernization /  The changing field of Japanese sport /  Joseph Maguire and Masayoshi Nakayama --  Yoshinobu Hamaguchi --  Yuko Kusaka --  Koichi Kiku --  Masayoshi Nakayama --  Kanji Kotani --  Hidesato Takahashi --  Keiji Matsuda --  Hitoshi Ebishima and Rieko Yamashita --  Hideki Nishimura --  Takayuki Tamashita.  Pt. I.  1.  2.  3.  Pt. II.  4.  5.  6.  7.  Pt. III.  8.  9.  10. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0714653586 (hardback) 0714682934 (pbk.) 0203504410 (ebook) 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>B7566298 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005017957 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sports--Social aspects--Japan<br/>Globalization--Japan
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GV706.5  / .J37 2005 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.4/82/0952