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Baseball in Occupied Japan

Takeshi Tanikawa
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      How was baseball used to promote U.S. values in occupied Japan? The first post–war Japanese professional baseball game was held on November 23, 1945, just 100 days after the end of World War II. During the occupation of Japan, GHQ sought to suppress and regulate budo (Japanese martial arts) as a relic of Japanese pre-war militarism but encouraged the playing and watching of baseball games as an effective teamwork– and sportsmanship–building tool. Baseball in Occupied Japan examines the revival of Japanese baseball in the occupation era, focusing on how the U.S. government carried out its cultural diplomacy policy within the arena of sports. The chapters hone in on various means by which the U.S. via GHQ controlled and fostered sports in Japan as a form of cultural diplomacy, including the propagation of the image of Jackie Robinson as an example of American unification, the San Francisco Seals' tour of Japan, the promotion of sports through CIE films, and the prohibition of martial arts such as kendo.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Takeshi Tanikawa EAN: 9781925608014 COUNTRY: Australia PAGES: WEIGHT: 333 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-05-30 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Asia / Japan, SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History WIDTH: 140 cm SPINE:

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      Japan, c 1940 to c 1949, Cultural studies, History and Archaeology, Asian history, Social and cultural history, Second World War, History of sport, Baseball

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      Takeshi Tanikawa is Visiting Professor of Film History in the Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University, and has been a cinema journalist and film critic for nearly three decades.
      How was baseball used to promote U.S. values in occupied Japan? The first post–war Japanese professional baseball game was held on November 23, 1945, just 100 days after the end of World War II. During the occupation of Japan, GHQ sought to suppress and regulate budo (Japanese martial arts) as a relic of Japanese pre-war militarism but encouraged the playing and watching of baseball games as an effective teamwork– and sportsmanship–building tool. Baseball in Occupied Japan examines the revival of Japanese baseball in the occupation era, focusing on how the U.S. government carried out its cultural diplomacy policy within the arena of sports. The chapters hone in on various means by which the U.S. via GHQ controlled and fostered sports in Japan as a form of cultural diplomacy, including the propagation of the image of Jackie Robinson as an example of American unification, the San Francisco Seals' tour of Japan, the promotion of sports through CIE films, and the prohibition of martial arts such as kendo.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Takeshi Tanikawa EAN: 9781925608014 COUNTRY: Australia PAGES: WEIGHT: 333 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-05-30 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Asia / Japan, SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History WIDTH: 140 cm SPINE:

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      Japan, c 1940 to c 1949, Cultural studies, History and Archaeology, Asian history, Social and cultural history, Second World War, History of sport, Baseball

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      Takeshi Tanikawa is Visiting Professor of Film History in the Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University, and has been a cinema journalist and film critic for nearly three decades.

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