{"product_id":"japan-through-the-lens-of-the-tokyo-olympics-open-access-hardcover","title":"Japan Through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics Open Access - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBarbara Holthus\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eIsaac Gagné\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eWolfram Manzenreiter\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book situates the 2020 Tokyo Olympics within the social, economic, and political challenges facing contemporary Japan. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as a lens into the city and the country as a whole, the stellar line up of contributors offer hidden insights and new perspectives on the Games. These include city planning, cultural politics, financial issues, language use, security, education, volunteerism, and construction work. The chapters then go on to explore the many stakeholders, institutions, citizens, interest groups, and protest groups involved, and feature the struggle over Tokyo's extreme summer heat, food standards, the implementation of diversity around disabilities, sexual minorities, and technological innovations. Giving short glimpses into the new Olympic sports, this book also analyses the role of these sports in Japanese society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJapan Through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics will be of huge interest to anyone attending the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020. It will also be useful to students and scholars of the Olympics and the sociology of sport, as well as Japanese culture and society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBarbara Holthus\u003c\/strong\u003e, Ph.D., is a sociologist and deputy director of the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo, Japan. Her main research interests include marriage and the family, childcare, happiness and well-being, media, as well as demographic change. Publications include \u003ci\u003eLife Course, Happiness and Well-being in Japan\u003c\/i\u003e (2017, Routledge, ed. with W. Manzenreiter). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsaac Gagné, Ph.D., a cultural anthropologist, is a senior research fellow at the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo, Japan and managing editor of \u003ci\u003eContemporary Japan\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a cultural anthropologist working on mental health and social welfare, morality and ethics, and religion. Publications include \"Religious globalization and reflexive secularization in a Japanese new religion\" (2017, \u003ci\u003eJapan Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWolfram Manzenreiter is professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. His research is concerned with social and anthropological aspects of sports, emotions, rural Japan, and transnational networks of the Japanese diaspora. Publications include \u003ci\u003eSport and Body Politics in Japan\u003c\/i\u003e (2014, Routledge). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFranz Waldenberger is an economist and director of the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo, Japan. His research focuses on the Japanese Economy in comparative perspective. Recent publications include \"Society 5.0. Japanese Ambitions and Initiatives\" in \u003ci\u003eThe Digital Future\u003c\/i\u003e (2018, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 146\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.6 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 06, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47466716430514,"sku":"9780367469573","price":118.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/000b72e22d9a2ff76880822e6a6265a8.webp?v=1779029926","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/japan-through-the-lens-of-the-tokyo-olympics-open-access-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}