Japan through the lens of the Tokyo Olympics

Table of Contents: “…Understanding Japan through the lens of Tokyo 2020 / Barbara Holthus, Isaac Gagné, Wolfram Manzenreiter, Franz Waldenberger -- Olympics and the media / Wolfram Manzenreiter -- Skateboarding: "F*** the Olympics" / Wolfram Manzenreiter -- Political games / Axel Klein -- Number games: The economic impact of Tokyo 2020 / Franz Waldenberger -- Climbing: New sport on the block / Wolfram Manzenreiter -- Advertising the games: Sponsoring a new era / Isaac Gagné -- Karate: Bowing to the Olympics in style / Wolfram Manzenreiter -- Herculean efforts: What the construction of the Olympic Stadium reveals about working conditions in Japan / Steffen Heinrich -- Tokyo 2020 and neighborhood transformation: Reworking the entrepreneurial city / Ralph Lützeler -- Ho(s)t city: Tokyo's fight against the summer heat / Jan Lukas Kuhn -- Tokyo's architecture and urban structure: Change in an ever-changing city / Florian Purkarthofer -- Success story: The 1964 Tokyo Olympics / Torsten Weber -- San'ya 2020: From building to hosting the Tokyo Olympics / Hanno Jentzsch -- Baseball/softball: One more homer for Japan / Wolfram Manzenreiter -- Outdoor sports in the periphery: Far from the compact games / Daniel Kremers -- Surfing: Taken with a grain of salt / Wolfram Manzenreiter -- Tokyo's 1940 "Phantom Olympics" in public memory: When Japan chose war over the Olympics / Torsten Weber -- Upgrading Tokyo's linguistic infrastructure for the 2020 Games / Peter Backhaus -- Sexual minorities and the Olympics / Maki Hirayama -- The Paralympic Games: Enabling sports and empowering disability / Katharina Heyer -- Sex in the city / Maki Hirayama -- Games of Romance? …”