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Faster, higher, stronger: Gender and the Olympic Games in twentieth century Japan
In the 1928 Summer Olympics, Hitomi Kinue won the silver medal in the 800-meter run, marking the first time a Japanese woman had medalled internationally. Eight years later, a now famous radio broadcast declaring, \"Maehata ganbare!\" (\"Stick to it, Maehata!\") was heard across the archipelago as swimmer Maehata Hideko became the first Japanese woman to win an Olympic gold. In the decades to follow, both the successes and the national attention given to women's sports within Japan would continue to blossom, and the trend has kept onto this day. The remarkable support and encouragement received by sportswomen over the past century seems to stand in stark contrast with the image of Japanese society as one in which women are not encouraged to excel, and one in which \"good wife, wise mother\" is still the paragon of womanhood. My dissertation explores how and why, over the past century, athletics have stood out as an arena in which excellence by Japanese women is so actively encouraged. The Olympic Games are an ideal stage upon which to examine this phenomenon. The heavily publicized nature of the Olympics makes for a wealth of primary resources through which pivotal moments in the discourse of gender can be examined. Using these resources, I look closely at the history of Japanese women's participation in the Olympics from 1928 to the present. My research is primarily text-based and historical, with Chapters One through Three considering the historical precedents for Japanese women's entry into the Olympics, the early pioneers of women's competitive sports, and the many female athletes whose Olympic success helped redefine women's role in twentieth century Japan. The final chapter is primarily analytical, and synthesizes various theoretical issues raised by these women's stories. Themes explored include modernity, globalization, commercialization, spectacle/performance, and femininity. The objective of combining historical narrative with theoretical analysis is to both complicate the hegemonic image of the feeble Japanese woman, and to highlight an untold chapter in the history of modern Japan.
Dissertation
What the Olympics Means to Japan
Since March 2020, when Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) officially agreed to postpone the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, Japan has experienced a year like none other in Olympic history. Many were concerned over serious environmental, public health, social, and economic issues that needed to be addressed after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear plant meltdown, as money and attention were diverted away from cleanup efforts in northeastern Japan and into Tokyo’s Olympic infrastructure improvements. Japan was the first Asian nation to host the Winter Olympics in Sapporo in 1972, the first to host a second Winter Olympics in Nagano in 1998, and it launched several more failed bids before becoming the first Asian nation to host its second Summer Olympics with the winning 2020 bid.
Magazine Article
Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Meiji Japan
Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Meiji Japan by Gainty Denis is reviewed. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press
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