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Japan at Play Joy Hendry (Oxford Brookes University, UK)

Japan at Play By Joy Hendry (Oxford Brookes University, UK)

Japan at Play by Joy Hendry (Oxford Brookes University, UK)

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Summary

Explores the myth, so abused by the mass media, that the Japanese are a grey, anonymous mass of efficient, obedient workers. The book's international contributors examine the role in modern Japanese society of a range of leisure and play activities, from drinking to travel, football to karaoke, and tattoos to rock fandom.

Japan at Play Summary

Japan at Play by Joy Hendry (Oxford Brookes University, UK)

Little-covered area of great interest - leisure and play activities in contemporary Japan

Co-edited by best-selling, highly respected and experienced author Jo Hendry

Truly international panel of contributors (from Japan, Singapore, Korea, Canada, France, UK, Denmark, USA, Australia)

Wide range of subject matter including: tattoos, karaoke, rock fandom, football, travel and hot spring resorts

Controversial: sees play not as trivial, but as complex and vital, and sometimes cruel

About Joy Hendry (Oxford Brookes University, UK)

Joy Hendry, Massimo Raveri

Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgements Conventions List of Contributors Introduction Massimo Raveri 1.The Japanese Tattoo: Play or Purpose? Joy Hendry 2.Interpreting the World as a Ken Game Sepp Linnhart 3. Kono Saki (The Japanese Gay Scene): Communities or Just Playing Around? Wim Lunsig 4. Karakuri : The Ludic Relationship Between Man and the Machine in Tokugawa Japan Yamaguchi Masao 5.Ludic Elements in Japanese Attitudes to Tsukuru Maria-Dolores Rodriguez del Alisar 6.Saved by the Love song: Japanese Rock Fans, Memory and the Pursuit of Pleasure Carolyn S. Stevens 7. Inakazumo , Fun and Socially Sanctioned Violence Michael Ashkenazi 8.At the Interstices: Drinking, Management, and Temporary Groups in a Local Japanese Organisation Eyal Ben-Ari 9.Training for Leisure: Karaoke and the Seriousness of Play in Japan William H. Kelly 10. Is there a Japanese way of Playing? Rupert Cox 11.When a Goal is not a Goal: Japanese School Football Players Working Hard at their Game Simone Dalla Chiesa 12.Professional Soccer in Japan John Horne 13.A Spell inJapan in the world of Play with Johan Huizinga Jan van Bremen 14. Countryside Reinvented for Urban Tourists: Rural Transformation in the Japanese Muraokoshi Movement Okpyo Moon 15.From Curing and Playing, to Leisure. Two Japanese Hot Springs: Arima and Kinosaki Onsen 16.Illegal Fishing and Power Games Ulrike Nennstiel 17. Hunters and Hikers: Rival Recreations in the Japanese Forest John Knight 18.Japan at Play in TDL: The Dialectics of Asobi and REJA

Additional information

GOR004083711
9780415379373
0415379377
Japan at Play by Joy Hendry (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Joy Hendry (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2005-08-23
328
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