The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus Newsletter
Newsletter No. 4, 2020 February 17, 2020 New Articles A mega-event like the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics justifies a monumental two-part special issue. This is an inter-disciplinary effort involving Japan specialists from around the globe who locate the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in light of previous Olympics and a wide range of issues pertinent to the Olympic movement and Japan's global role. The call for papers elicited a rapid and robust response by scholars, translators and writers who have taken to heart my instructions to write accessible, jargon-free essays that distill their knowledge and insights without compromising rigor and reliability. Our targeted audience is educators and their students as well as general readers who need access to high quality, online resources at a time when interest in the Olympics runs high. We also hope that curious visitors and journalists will benefit from and enjoy this compilation as they scrutinize the PR spectacle, messaging and branding, and delve deeper into contemporary Japan’s dilemmas and simmering challenges. - Jeff Kingston, Editor Subscribe at no charge to the Asia-Pacific Journal: https://apjjf.org/Subscribe Jeff Kingston Special Issue: Japan’s Olympic Summer Games - Past and Present, Part I (Table of Contents) Jeff Kingston Introduction to the Special Issue on Japan’s Olympic’s Summer Games -- Past and Present Jeff Kingston Tokyo’s Diversity Olympics Dogged by Controversy David Leheny Opening a Storyline in the 2020 Olympics Gracia Liu-Farrer Japan and Immigration: Looking Beyond the Tokyo Olympics Tessa Morris-Suzuki Indigenous Rights and the ‘Harmony Olympics’ Claire Maree “LGBT issues” and the 2020 Games Ian Lynam The Small Olympics Gerald Curtis Celebrating the “New Japan Akiko Hashimoto The Tokyo Olympic Stadium: Site of National Memory Asato Ikeda The Tokyo Olympics: 1940/2020 Robert Whiting The 1964 Olympics Kazuhiko Togo Unease about Tokyo 2020 Roy Tomizawa 1964: The Greatest Year in the History of Japan -- Three Reasons Why Helen Macnaughtan From the Witches of the Orient to the Blossoming Sevens: Volleyball and Rugby at the Tokyo Olympics Robin Kietlinski Trash Islands: The Olympic Games and Tokyo’s Changing Environment Peter Matanle Confronting the Olympic Paradox: Modernity and Environment at a Crossroads in Downtown Tokyo https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/22/worlds-consumption-of-materials-hits-record-100bn-tonnes-a-year#img-1 tions
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