There is more to Japanese sport than sumo, karate and baseball. This study of social sport
in Japan pursues a comprehensive approach towards sport as a distinctive cultural sphere …

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experience of military, political and economic dominance of the West. Since football reached …

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each other over legitimacy and supremacy for most part of their postcolonial history. This …

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