Playing the Nation: 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics and Japanese Identity

This dissertation explores the performance and consumption of a reinvented Japanese national identity surrounding the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics. This event marked an important psychological turning point for many Japanese, who saw it as marking their reemergence into the world community. National identity is often hidden in the daily assumptions and practices of members of the nation. Prestige events like the Olympics bring these to the surface and make them easier to analyze as the contents for performance and consumption of Self, for both Self and Other, are prepared. Furthermore, the specifics of Japanese national identity at this time made the Olympics a near perfect venue for this.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Droubie, Paul

Contributors dc:contributor

• Toby, Ronald P.

• History, Asia, Australia and Oceania
• Sociology, Social Structure and Development

Identifier

(UMI)AAI3406738

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/72317