TY - BOOK AU - Guttmann,Allen AU - Thompson,Lee ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Japanese sports: a history AV - GV655 .G88 2001eb U1 - 796/.0952 21 PY - 2001/// CY - Honolulu PB - University of Hawai'i Press KW - Sports KW - Japan KW - History KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-291) and index; Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Sporting Practices Before the Black Ships -- 1 Sum6, Ball Games, and Feats of Strength -- 2 Martial Techniques -- Part II Modern Times -- 3 The Arrival and Diffusion of Western Sports -- 4 The Modernization of Indigenous Sports -- 5 Japan at the Olympics: 1912-1940 -- 6 From Taisho Democracy to Japanese Fascism -- Part III Postwar Sports -- 7 Rising from the Ashes -- 8 Japan at the Olympics: 1952-1998 -- 9 New Directions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Plates follow page 150; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10388450 ER -