Handbook of Sport and Japan

Introduction: Verity Postlethwaite, Emily Barrass Chapman, Helen Macnaughtan—with contributions from Masami Sekine, Geoffery Z. Kohe, Takayuki Hata and Rei Saito;
Part One: Historical Developments of Various Key and Emerging Sports in Japan;
Chapter 1: Baseball, Japan’s National Pastime (William W. Kelly);
Chapter 2: A Survey of Rugby in Japan: From Early Play in 1864 to Hosting the World Cup in 2019 (Mike Galbraith and Helen Macnaughtan);
Chapter 3: Crafting Selves, Reproducing Capital: A Century or so of Japanese Golf (Angus Lockyer);
Chapter 4: “Boys, be Ambitious”: A Brief History and Cultural Analysis of Japanese Basketball (Aaron L. Miller);
Chapter 5: The Development and Popularity of Volleyball in Japan: The Impact of the ‘Witches of the Orient’ (Iwona Merklejn and Helen Macnaughtan);
Chapter 6: The Gender-related Discursive Function of Japanese Football since Its Professionalization (Yunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar);
Chapter 7: In the Ring and Beyond the Apron: Women’s Pro Wrestling as Physical Performance (Keiko Aiba);
Chapter 8: Surfing in Japan: From itago Riding to Surfing (Eri Mizuno);
Chapter 9: The Beauty of Winter Sports: The Popularity of Figure Skating in Japan (Masafumi Monden);
Part Two: Relationships Between Elements of the State, Society and Sporting Experiences in Japan;
Chapter 10: From Three-Legged to Two-Legged Races: The Rise of Competitive Women’s Sport in Japan (1910s-1920s) (Robin Kietlinski);
Chapter 11: Queer and Transgender Sport in Japan: Seitekishosusha (Gender and Sexual Minority) Athletes and Their Sporting Experiences (Michelle Ho);
Chapter 12: Tokyo’s (Non)-Olympics: 1940, 1964, 2020 (Christian Tagsold);
Chapter 13: The Paralympic Movement, Disability, and Sports in Japan (Dennis J. Frost);
Chapter 14: The Influence of Jigoro Kano: From Higher Education to the Japanese Olympic Movement (Helen Symons and Taro Obayashi);
Chapter 15: Intangible Legacy: The Memories and Continuities Between the 1964 and 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, Focusing on the Olympic Torch Relay (Ai Aramaki and Geoffery Z. Kohe);
Chapter 16: Winter Sporting Cultures and Japan (Takayuki Yamashita, Verity Postlethwaite and Gyozo Molnár)