{"id":695,"date":"2013-04-03T03:15:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T03:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaronlmiller.com\/?p=695"},"modified":"2020-07-06T21:10:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T21:10:48","slug":"from-the-basketball-court-to-the-company-cubicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/from-the-basketball-court-to-the-company-cubicle\/","title":{"rendered":"For Basketball Court and Company Cubicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CJST.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-706 alignleft\" alt=\"CJST\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CJST.jpg\" width=\"126\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/strong>During Japan<b>\u2019<\/b>s High Economic Growth Period (1955<b>\u2012<\/b>1973), school-affiliated sports clubs served as important socialization mechanisms creating strong, healthy, and disciplined workers\u00a0who would later serve Japanese companies. Since the 1980s, however, there have been new\u00a0approaches in the management of companies and sports teams in Japan, especially in terms of a\u00a0new performance-based hierarchy that places the onus on individuals to think independently\u00a0and be creative on the court or in the cubicle. While sports clubs continue to habituate members into a particular vocabulary that encourages effort, discipline, and teamwork <b>\u2013 <\/b>language that\u00a0will continue to be used after they join corporate Japan <b>\u2013 <\/b>changing economic landscapes have\u00a0ushered in the introduction of new coaching pedagogies to Japanese sports, and therefore new\u00a0expectations for Japanese athletes. These athletic expectations happen to mirror new expectations\u00a0of young Japanese workers. Drawing on long-term fieldwork with a university basketball club, this article demonstrates that while sports continue to be perceived as educational tools that build\u00a0<b>\u2018<\/b>team-players<b>\u2019 <\/b>to serve companies, they are today being asked to cultivate independent, innovative,\u00a0and flexible company employees as well; and reconciling these two rather conflicting\u00a0goals has proved to be easier said than done.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Japan\u2019s High Economic Growth Period (1955\u20121973), school-affiliated sports clubs served as important socialization mechanisms creating strong, healthy, and disciplined workers\u00a0who would later serve Japanese companies. Since the 1980s, however, there have been new\u00a0approaches in the management of companies and sports teams in Japan, especially in terms of a\u00a0new performance-based hierarchy that places the onus&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/from-the-basketball-court-to-the-company-cubicle\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">For Basketball Court and Company Cubicle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-journal-articles","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}