VOL.18-1 
Special Issue: The Sociology of “Gold Medals”
YAMAMOTO Norihito
Discourse on Olympic Medals and Medalists
MORIKAWA Sadao
The ideological genealogy of “Sports as a National Policy” and problems of “Reinforced Plan of Top Athletes” and its future Problems
YOSHIDA Takeshi
The process of career development of athletes before and after winning the Olympic gold medal: A life history of a gold medalist of the Nordic combined race

Articles
ISHIHARA Toyokazu
The Transformation of the Sports Labor Migration in the Globalization of Professional Sports: From the Observation of Professional Baseball Players in the baseball barren, Israel
TAKAO Masayuki
The Politics of Body and Health in Contemporary Japanese Health Policy: From a Range of the “Governmentality” Perspective
NORIMATSU Suguru
Nobusuke Kishi’s Southeast Asia Policy and Sports: Focused on the “Oriental Champion Carnival” of Professional Boxing

Book Reviews
KWON Hak Jun
A study of the National Athletic Meet: Nationalism and sports events
NISHIMURA Hideki
An aesthetic of restraint in sport: The strength and profundity produced in quiet athletes
SAKAUE Yasuhiro and TAKAOKA Hiroyuki
The Age of the Missing Tokyo Olympics: Sport, Cities and Body in Wartime Japan
Alan BAIRNER
Sport, Nationalism, and Globalization: European and North American Perspectives