March 01, 2020 Special Issue: Japan’s Olympic Summer Games - Past

Special Issue: Japan’s Olympic Summer Games - Past and Present, Part II (Table of Contents)

Introduction to the Special Issue on Japan’s Olympic’s Summer Games -- Past and Present, Part II

Bringing the Circus to Town: An Anatomy of the Olympic Movement

Did the 2016 Olympics change Rio de Janeiro? Not Much - At Least Not for the Good

Spinning the Rings: The Media and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Can Cities Bring Home the Gold?: What Economic Theory Tells Us about Hosting the Olympic Games

Tokyo 2020: Public Cost and Private Benefit

The Tokyo Paralympic Superhero: Manga and Narratives of Disability in Japan

Promises of Accessibility for the Tokyo 2020 Games

1940 Tokyo: The Olympiad that Never Was

Symbolic Transformation: The 1964 Tokyo Games Reconsidered

Light, Currency, Spectacle, and War: Kobayashi Erika’s She Waited (2019)

The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and the Tokyo Olympics

Radiation Disinformation and Human Rights Violations at the Heart of Fukushima and the Olympic Games

As If Nothing Had Occurred: Anti-Tokyo Olympics Protests and Concern Over Radiation Exposure

Anti-Olympic Rallying Points, Public Alienation, and Transnational Alliances

Playful Protests and Contested Urban Space: the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Protest Movement

An Opportunity for Japan to Change People’s Perception

Some Pages from the Manga Book ‘Tokyo and Olympics Guide’ with Commentary on Social and Environmental Significance, written by Sean Michael Wilson, illustrated by Makiko Kodama, published by Kodansha, bilingual edition, Dec 2019.