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Tokyo 2020: Opportunity for Regional Reconciliation or Protracted Antagonism?

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Japanese Imperialism: Politics and Sport in East Asia

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This essay surveys the ways in which the Japanese imperial state harnessed Olympic sports as a vehicle for projecting national power and prestige before World War II. It also examines the circuitous way in which Japan reestablished itself as a peace-loving nation in the International Olympic Movement in the postwar years. It argues that Japan’s hosting 2020 Olympics betokens a discomforting trend towards reverting the prewar ‘Imperial Model’ of state-driven sports promotion and use of elite sport as a tool of statecraft.

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  1. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

    Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu

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  1. Strathclyde University, Swanage, United Kingdom

    J.A. Mangan

  2. Australian Catholic University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Peter Horton

  3. Communication University of China, Beijing, China

    Tianwei Ren

  4. Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea (Republic of)

    Gwang Ok

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Guthrie-Shimizu, S. (2018). Tokyo 2020: Opportunity for Regional Reconciliation or Protracted Antagonism?. In: Mangan, J., Horton, P., Ren, T., Ok, G. (eds) Japanese Imperialism: Politics and Sport in East Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5104-3_12

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