I wrote a chapter that was included in Butterworth, M. (ed). Sport and Militarism: Contemporary Global Perspectives, Routledge. 2017. It is called “”Teaching Violence: Corporal Punishment, Vertical Hierarchy, And The Reproduction Of Militaristic Values In Contemporary Japanese Sports”.
This 2017 book chapter was my contribution to the Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies . Read it here.
Along with my friend and colleague, Nakazawa Atsushi, who is a professor at Waseda University in Japan, we recently published a book chapter entitled, “Youth Sports in Japan”, in the Routledge Handbook of Youth Sport.
Corporal punishment – loosely defined as the beating, hitting, or kicking of the body to discipline or punish, by a person in a position of authority relative to a person in a subordinate position – is not a social phenomenon… Read More »Taibatsu: From Educational Solution to Social Problem to Marginalized Non-Issue
Ministry of Education bureaucrats, who write Japan’s sports policy, have actively looked to other nations to find new ideas. Sports policy reforms throughout modern Japanese history have reflected this global outlook, but though they have often been based on foreign… Read More »Beyond The Four Walls
