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The football World Cup is unquestionably the biggest sporting event in the world. This fascinating collection of papers examines the background to the 2002 World Cup Finals, held in Korea and Japan, and explores the event's profound social, cultural, political and economic significance.The book offers important insight into topics such as:* the development of professional football in Korea and Japan* the political and diplomatic significance of the first co-hosted World Cup* FIFA and the 'back stage' dealing behind the World Cup* football as a global culture and it
Soccer --- Association football --- English football --- European football --- Football (Soccer) --- Football --- World Cup (Soccer) --- J6900.90 --- J6902 --- J6954 --- K9390.80 --- K9393.10 --- Japan: Sports and recreation -- history -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: Sports and recreation -- societies, organizations, congresses, periodicals, tournaments and events --- Japan: Sports and recreation -- soccer --- Korea: Sports, games and toys -- history -- modern period, postwar period (1945- ) --- Korea: Sports -- soccer
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"This book situates the 2020 Tokyo Olympics within the social, economic and political challenges facing contemporary Japan. Using the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as a lens into the city and the country as a whole, the stellar line up of contributors offer hidden insights and new perspectives on the Games. These include city planning, cultural politics, financial issues, language use, security, education, volunteerism and construction work. The chapters then go on to explore the many stakeholders, institutions, citizens, interest groups, and protest groups involved, and feature the struggle over Tokyo's extreme summer heat, food standards, the implementation of diversity around disabilities, sexual minorities and technological innovations. Giving short glimpses into the new Olympic sports, this book also analyses the role of these sports in Japanese society. Japan Through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics will be of huge interest to anyone attending the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020. It will also be useful to students and scholars of the Olympics and the sociology of sport, as well as Japanese culture and society"--
Olympics --- Popular culture --- J6902 --- J6900.90 --- J4000.90 --- J4300.90 --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Games, Olympic --- Olympic games --- Summer Olympics --- Sports --- Planning --- Political aspects --- Economic aspects --- Social aspects --- Security measures&delete& --- Japan: Sports and recreation -- societies, organizations, congresses, periodicals, tournaments and events --- Japan: Sports and recreation -- history -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: Economy and industry -- history -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan --- Social life and customs. --- E-books --- Planning. --- Security measures
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