- List of Figures
- Author’s Note
- Introduction: Sports Celebrity in Japan: A Transnational History
- 1. Saving Sumo: Re-Presenting the National Sport
- 2. The Making of a Self-Made Star: Celebrity Images and the Emergence of a Sports-Star Paradigm
- 3. “So, Your Daughter Is a Sportsman”: Gender Anxiety and Nationalism in the Golden Age of Sports
- 4. “Japan’s Number One” Goes to War: Baseball, Militarization, and Memory
- 5. Becoming the Kanmuriwashi: Ethnicity, Narrativity, and “Spectacular Difference”
- Epilogue: So How Tall Is Ichiro?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
HARVARD EAST ASIAN MONOGRAPHS
Harvard East Asian Monographs 331
Seeing Stars
Sports Celebrity, Identity, and Body Culture in Modern Japan
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Publication Date: 02/07/2011
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