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| TITLE: |
Japanese sports : a history / Allen Guttmann, Lee Thompson. |
| AUTHOR: |
Guttmann, Allen. |
| PUBLISHED: |
Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2001. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
ix, 307 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| NOTES: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-291) and index. |
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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. |
| ELEC. ACCESS: |
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy02/00066665.html
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| SUBJECT: |
Sports--Japan--History. |
| ADDED ENTRY: |
Thompson, Lee (Lee Austin) |
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