Format:
1 online resource
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781000057713
,
1000057712
,
9781003033905
,
1003033903
,
9781000057591
,
1000057593
,
9781000057652
,
1000057658
Content:
Understanding Japan through the lens of Tokyo 2020 / Barbara Holthus, Isaac Gagné, Wolfram Manzenreiter, Franz Waldenberger -- Olympics and the media / Wolfram Manzenreiter -- Skateboarding: F*** the Olympics / Wolfram Manzenreiter -- Political games / Axel Klein -- Number games: The economic impact of Tokyo 2020 / Franz Waldenberger -- Climbing: New sport on the block / Wolfram Manzenreiter -- Advertising the games: Sponsoring a new era / Isaac Gagné -- Karate: Bowing to the Olympics in style / Wolfram Manzenreiter -- Herculean efforts: What the construction of the Olympic Stadium reveals about working conditions in Japan / Steffen Heinrich -- Tokyo 2020 and neighborhood transformation: Reworking the entrepreneurial city / Ralph Lützeler -- Ho(s)t city: Tokyo's fight against the summer heat / Jan Lukas Kuhn -- Tokyo's architecture and urban structure: Change in an ever-changing city / Florian Purkarthofer -- Success story: The 1964 Tokyo Olympics / Torsten Weber -- San'ya 2020: From building to hosting the Tokyo Olympics / Hanno Jentzsch -- Baseball/softball: One more homer for Japan / Wolfram Manzenreiter -- Outdoor sports in the periphery: Far from the compact games / Daniel Kremers -- Surfing: Taken with a grain of salt / Wolfram Manzenreiter -- Tokyo's 1940 Phantom Olympics in public memory: When Japan chose war over the Olympics / Torsten Weber -- Upgrading Tokyo's linguistic infrastructure for the 2020 Games / Peter Backhaus -- Sexual minorities and the Olympics / Maki Hirayama -- The Paralympic Games: Enabling sports and empowering disability / Katharina Heyer -- Sex in the city / Maki Hirayama -- Games of Romance? Tokyo in search of love and unity in diversity / Nora Kottmann -- The 2020 Olympic mascot characters: Japan wants to make a difference / Jan Lukas Kuhn -- Olympic education: How Tokyo 2020 shapes body and mind in Japan / Wolfram Manzenreiter -- Sex in the village / Maki Hirayama -- Volunteering Japan-style: Field cast for the Tokyo Olympics / Barbara Holthus -- The difference between zero and one: Voices from the Tokyo anti-Olympic movements / Sonja Ganseforth -- Beyond 2020: Post-Olympic pessimism in Japanese cinema / Jan Lukas Kuhn -- Tokyo 2020 from the regional sidelines / Isaac Gagné -- Olympic leverages: The struggle for sustainable food standards / Sonja Ganseforth -- Security for the Tokyo Olympics / Sebastian Polak-Rottmann -- The Olympic and Paralympic Games as a technology showcase / Franz Waldenberger -- Tokyo 2020: Connecting the past with the future / Round table discussion with Munehiko Harada, John Horne, Wolfram Manzenreiter.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367469573
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367471682
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780367469573
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=none&isbn=9781000057713
URL:
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2019058164
URL:
Full text available: 2020.
