Japanese Imperialism: Politics and Sport in East Asia

J.A. Mangan is Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Royal Anthropological Society and Royal Society of Arts, with Fellowships at Berkeley, Cambridge and Oxford.   Dr Peter Horton is Hon. Fellow at Australian Catholic University and has taught at James Cook University, Griffith University and Queensland University of Technology, the Communication University of China, Beijing and Nanyang Technological University.   Tianwei Ren is International Coordinator, International League of Higher Education in Media and Communication, Communication University of China, and holds a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science.   Dr Gwang Ok is an Associate Professor at Chungbuk National University, South Korea, regional board editor of The International Journal of the History of Sport and editor of Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science.

Empires: Dead, Dying and Dormant.- Empires - West and East; Curious Conjunction and Contemporary Consequences, Complexity and Circumstances.- Japanese Imperial Sport as Failed Cultural Conditioning: Korean ‘Recalcitrance’.- The Unclosed Door: South Korea's Post-Colonial Sport as a Revanchist Reaction to Japanese Imperial Legacies.- A Living Legacy (Part One): Japanese Imperialism and Chinese Revanchism – Modern Sport as a Modern Medium.- A Living Legacy (Part Two): Japanese Imperialism - Residual Resentment and an Unforgiving China: the Sports Cartoon as Political Aide-Memoire.- Japanese Cultural Imperialism in Taiwan: Judo as an Instrument of Colonial Conditioning.- Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Control: Sport as a Component of Cultural Conditioning, Political Domination and Militaristic Imperialism.- A Clash of Colonialisms: Sports Culture in Hong Kong under the Japanese Occupation.- The Ambivalence of the Reaction, Response, Legacy and War Memory: The Japanese Occupation of the Malayan Peninsula: the Consequences for Sport of the Imperial Past and the Democratic Present.- Towards the Construction of a New Regionalism? The End of East Asian Colonialism: Japanese Responses and Reactions to the Games of Asia.- Tokyo 2020: Opportunity for Regional Reconciliation or Protracted Antagonism?.- Retained Memories, Political Pressures, Catalytic Moments - Tokyo 2020 Reconciliation?.- ‘The past is a present country’.