Sport, Memory and Nationhood in Japan

Andreas Niehaus is head of the Department of South and East Asian Studies at Ghent University, Belgium and has published on judo, the history of sports and body culture in Japan. Christian Tagsold is research fellow at the Institute for Modern Japan, Dusseldorf University, Germany. He has published on Tokyo Olympics 1964, aging society in Japan, Japanese Gardens in the West and Japanese diasporas.

1. Introduction: Remembering the glory days of the nation: sport as lieu de memoire in Japan Andreas Niehaus and Christian Tagsold 2. Lieux de memoire/sites of memories and the Olympic Games: an introduction Gertrud Pfister 3. Swimming into memory: the Los Angeles Olympics (1932) as Japanese lieu de memoire Andreas Niehaus 4. Remember to get back on your feet quickly: the Japanese women’s volleyball team at the 1964 Olympics as a ‘Realm of Memory’ Christian Tagsold 5. One world one dream? Twenty-first century Japanese perspectives on hosting the Olympic Games Robin Kietlinski 6. Tokyo’s 1964 Olympic design as a ‘realm of [design] memory’ Jilly Traganou 7. Koshien Stadium: performing national virtues and regional rivalries in a ‘theatre of sport’ William W. Kelly 8. From national event to local memory – World Cup 2002 Yoshio Takahashi 9. ‘By running. . . / by fighting. . . / by dying. . .’: remembering, glorifying, and forgetting Japanese Olympian war dead Aaron Skabelund 10. ‘It was October 1964, when I met the demon for the first time’: Supo-kon manga as lieux de memoire Ikuo Abe 11. The professional wrestler Rikidozan as a site of memory Lee Thompson 12. Sports sites of memory in Japan’s cultures of remembrance and oblivion:collective remembrance is like swimming – in order to stay afloat you have to keep moving Wolfram Manzenreiter and John Horne