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.
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