Remember to get back on your feet quickly: the Japanese women's volleyball team at the 1964 Olympics as a ‘Realm of Memory’

Tagsold, Christian

doi:10.1080/17430437.2011.565923

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“…Japon Erkek Voleybol Takımı da bronz madalya kazanarak başarılı oldu. Voleybol takımlarının bu başarısı fiziksel dezavantajlarını disiplinli ve sistematik çalışmaya avantaja dönüştürmelerinin ve azimlerinin eseriydi (Macnaughtan, 2012(Macnaughtan, , 2014(Macnaughtan, , 2020Merklejn, 2013;Miller, 2012: 177-178;Tagsold, 2011). Japon Olimpik Hareketi'nin büyük ismi olan Kano Jigoro tarafından tesis edilen bir spor branşı olan judo sadece erkeklerde ve dört sıklette yapıldı.…”

Section: Tokyo Olimpiyat Oyunları (Xviii Yaz Olimpiyat Oyunları)unclassified

Tokyo 1964 Summer Olympics and Turkiye’s Olympic Performance in Tokyo: An International Relations Perspective

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Biçimlendirmeyi 1964 Tokyo Olimpiyat Oyunları Asya kıtasında düzenlemiş ilk Olimpiyat’tır. II. Dünya Savaşı’ndan sonra on yıl içinde küllerinden yeniden doğan Japonya, uluslararası konjonktürün büyük etkisiyle kazandığı ev sahipliği görevini ziyadesiyle yerine getirmiş ve Tokyo Oyunları’nı sportif ve diplomatik açıdan bir çıkış rampası olarak kullanmıştır. Oyunlar’da 29 madalya kazanan Japonya, baştan aşağı yenilediği altyapısıyla Tokyo ve çevresinin ekonomik ve turistik potansiyelini ve organizasyondaki başarısıyla teknolojik ve endüstriyel gelişimini dünyaya tanıtmıştır. Üçte ikisi güreşçilerden oluşan sporcu kafilesiyle Türkiye, hepsi güreşte olmak üzere ikisi altın altı madalya kazanmış ve Türkiye 1992’ye kadar Oyunlar’da bu sayıya ulaşamamıştır. Japonya’nın çıkışa geçtiği Türkiye’nin ise gerilemeye başladığı Tokyo Olimpiyatı’nın uluslararası çerçevede incelendiği bu araştırma makalesinde Türkçe ve İngilizce çok çeşitli birincil ve ikincil kaynaklar kullanılarak bahsedilen olgunun sebepleri ve sonuçları nitel yöntemle analiz edilmiştir. Çalışmanın ana amacı Türk spor tarihinin fazla işlenmeyen bir alanını dünya literatüründe incelemek; uzun erimli amacı ise Olimpik performansın ve organizasyon başarısının anlaşılmasında tarihsel altyapının önemini göstermektir. Keza, bir Asya ülkesi olarak Japonya ikisi Kış Olimpiyatları olmak üzere Olimpiyatlar’a dört kez ev sahipliği yapmış; Türkiye ise beş kez aday olmasına rağmen hiç ev sahipliği kazanamamıştır. Bu bağlamda, İstanbul ve Tokyo’nun yollarının kesiştiği ve ayrıştığı düzlemlerde, spordan ayrı düşünülemeyecek dış politika dinamiklerinin sosyo-politik iç dinamiklere uzandığı bu çalışmada disiplinler üstü bir yaklaşımla Türkiye’nin Olimpik Hareketi’ne katkıda bulunulması hedeflenmektedir.

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Section: Tokyo Olimpiyat Oyunları (Xviii Yaz Olimpiyat Oyunları)unclassified

Tokyo 1964 Summer Olympics and Turkiye’s Olympic Performance in Tokyo: An International Relations Perspective

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“…I also add to the burgeoning conversation on Japanese women athletes. Several scholars have tracked the gender and nationalistic discourses of the women’s volleyball team, Tōyō no Majo (Oriental Witches), during the 1964 Tokyo Olympics (Macnaughtan, 2014; Merklejn, 2013; Tagsold, 2011). Except for Kietlinski’s (2011) analysis of Olympic gold medalist Arakawa in her historical monograph on Japanese sportswomen, few scholars have examined Japanese figure skaters and figure skating culture.…”

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Tracing tears and triple axels: Media representations of Japan’s women figure skaters

2015

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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Anticipating the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, this article uses the triple axel jump, one of the most challenging moves in women's figure skating, as a heuristic device to track representations of Japanese skaters Ito Midori and Asada Mao in the New York Times and Asahi Shimbun. Ito and Asada are two of only six women to have landed triple axels at international figure skating competitions. Employing affect and feminist theories, I argue that constructions of the skaters' bodies are not just gendered and heteronormative, but also sexed, raced, and affective. Using discourse analysis, I trace how media representations of Ito and Asada redraw global color lines and national boundaries in sport and negotiate different femininities, underscoring excessive feelings and physical appearance. Contributing to feminist sport studies and transnational feminist cultural studies, this comparative analysis offers new perspectives on women's sports in Japan and athleticism's relation to race, femininities, and national identity.

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“…covered the World Cup championship, the team's glorious return, exclusive interviews, reactions of fans and spectators, the popularity of Nadeshiko goods, and even the scarcity of girls soccer teams. While Otomo (2007) reveals the incongruity behind constructing Tōyō no Majo as "dutiful daughters," or in terms of national femininity, Tagsold (2011) reads Daimatsu in a highly nationalistic context, as the father figure managing his daughters. Despite Kietlinski's (2011b) claim that sportswomen redefine women's "national responsibility" of supporting men (p. 178), that these women athletes are read as daughters sustaining the father nation, is telling of their still subordinated positions within society.…”

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“…Here I add to scholarship on women athletes in the sociocultural context of Japan. Scholars have examined Tōyō no Majo in relation to nationalism and gender (Merklejn, 2013; Otomo, 2007; Tagsold, 2011). Otomo (2007) asserts that sports journalists avoided conflicting representations of femininity and sport performance by deliberately depicting the volleyball players as “dutiful daughters” (p. 122).…”

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“…As Orlansky (2007) observes, Japanese women Olympians are still socially expected to become good wives and wise mothers after and, arguably, during their careers. That the Japanese media continue to watch over these athletes and announce their impending marriage and motherhood supports this expectation, such as former Judo champion Tani Ryoko, gymnast Ono Kiyoko, and Tōyō no Majo captain Kasai Masae, who were lauded as balancing sports with family (Kietlinski, 2011a; Macnaughtan, 2012; Merklejn, 2013; Tagsold, 2011). It is no wonder then that the wide-show depicts Iwashimizu as a specific kind of woman athlete who may follow in her predecessors’ footsteps.…”

Section: Melding Sport Celebrity Sports Feminism and Japanese Womenmentioning

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Is Nadeshiko Japan “Feminine?” Manufacturing Sport Celebrity and National Identity on Japanese Morning Television

2013

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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When the Japan women's soccer team, more affectionately dubbed "Nadeshiko Japan," emerged FIFA World Cup champions in 2011, its members became celebrities overnight. However, central to their celebrityhood is the media's obsession with "femininity." Through constructing sport celebrities, or tarento ("talents"), I argue that the Japanese media shift between representations of Nadeshiko Japan as glorified national athletes and as trivialized "feminine" figures. Following Michel Foucault's concept of "power" as relational, these structures dominate, and are in turn challenged by, the Nadeshiko members. Through close textual analysis of Japanese morning talk show, Sukkiri!!, this article explores how Nadeshiko Japan offers its primary audience, women, alternative forms of subjectivity. Using a cultural studies approach, this recent study of Japan reweighs gender anxieties surrounding athletes in the media.

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Remember to get back on your feet quickly: the Japanese women's volleyball team at the 1964 Olympics as a ‘Realm of Memory’

Cited by 4 publications

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Tokyo 1964 Summer Olympics and Turkiye’s Olympic Performance in Tokyo: An International Relations Perspective

Tokyo 1964 Summer Olympics and Turkiye’s Olympic Performance in Tokyo: An International Relations Perspective

Tracing tears and triple axels: Media representations of Japan’s women figure skaters

Is Nadeshiko Japan “Feminine?” Manufacturing Sport Celebrity and National Identity on Japanese Morning Television

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