Newsletter No. 5, 2020 March 05, 2020 New Articles Special Issue: Japan’s Olympic Summer Games - Past and Present, Part II In this collection of essays our authors explore a range of issues not covered in Part 1, examining the broader impact of the Olympic Movement, efforts to spin the message and whether hosting the games is worth the extravagant costs. Two authors focus on the Paralympics, another presents excerpts from a graphic guide to the Olympics while others delve into previous Olympics, what they represented and how they influence the 2020 games. There are also several essays on opposition to the Olympics and lingering concerns about how the government has managed the Fukushima nuclear accident. The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic casts an ominous shadow over the games, but hopefully it will abate in time for the games to proceed. - Jeff Kingston, Editor Jeff Kingston Special Issue: Japan’s Olympic Summer Games - Past and Present, Part II (Table of Contents) Jeff Kingston Introduction to the Special Issue on Japan’s Olympic’s Summer Games -- Past and Present, Part II William W. Kelly Bringing the Circus to Town: An Anatomy of the Olympic Movement Stephen Wade Did the 2016 Olympics change Rio de Janeiro? Not Much - At Least Not for the Good David McNeill Spinning the Rings: The Media and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Michael A. Leeds Can Cities Bring Home the Gold?: What Economic Theory Tells Us about Hosting the Olympic Games Eva Marikova Leeds Tokyo 2020: Public Cost and Private Benefit Anoma van der Veere The Tokyo Paralympic Superhero: Manga and Narratives of Disability in Japan Susan S. Lee Promises of Accessibility for the Tokyo 2020 Games Mark Schreiber 1940 Tokyo: The Olympiad that Never Was Christian Tagsold Symbolic Transformation: The 1964 Tokyo Games Reconsidered Taro Nettleton Light, Currency, Spectacle, and War: Kobayashi Erika’s She Waited (2019) Koide Hiroaki The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and the Tokyo Olympics Shaun Burnie Radiation Disinformation and Human Rights Violations at the Heart of Fukushima and the Olympic Games Akihiro Ogawa As If Nothing Had Occurred: Anti-Tokyo Olympics Protests and Concern Over Radiation Exposure Sonja Ganseforth Anti-Olympic Rallying Points, Public Alienation, and Transnational Alliances William Andrews Playful Protests and Contested Urban Space: the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Protest Movement Alexis Dudden An Opportunity for Japan to Change People’s Perception Sean Michael Wilson Some pages from the manga book ‘Tokyo and Olympics Guide’ with Commentary on Social and Environmental Significance, written by Sean Michael Wilson, illustrated by Makiko Kodama, published by Kodansha, bilingual edition, Dec 2019. tions
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