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Goldblatt brilliantly traces their history from the reinvention of the Games in Athens in 1896 to Rio in 2016, revealing how the Olympics developed into a global colossus and highlighting how they have been buffeted by (and affected by) ... Interview of Mikio Oda, a Japanese Olympic champion. This book is the translation of an interview published in the Ashashi Shimbun newspaper in 1998. Do the Olympic Games really live up to their glowing reputation? This book investigates the role played by the Asahi Newspaper, one of Japan's largest daily newspapers, as a mediator of information and power during the 20th century. This book offers a history of Japanese television audiences and the popular media culture that television helped to spawn. Found inside – Page 204ulated about a "post-Olympic" China, and their prognoses are generally darker than the ... The closing Olympic editorial in the Asahi Shimbun, although more ... 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Found insideFor the first time, this new edition introduces the reader to the emergence of ‘other Games’ associated with the IOC – the Winter Olympics, the Paralympics, and the Youth Olympics. A dreamlike story of filial love and glimmering hope, set in a future where the old live almost-forever and children's lives are all too brief. Found insideEditorial Roundup Good Sportsmanship The decision to select Seoul as the host city for the 1988 Summer Olympic Games came as a shock to Nagoya officials who ... Found insideThe Asahi Shimbun. 2 July 2005. Accessed Oct. 2005 →http://www.asahi.com/english/Heraldasahi/TKY200507020151.html Yang, Aixiang. (2003, October 28). This cutting edge collection presents a political reading of the power of modern sport in Asia. By presenting an alternative to the traditional 'top-down' narrative of state-driven economic nationalism, this book therefore makes a unique contribution to the study of postwar Japanese history and Japanese nationalism. 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