16th Annual Conference, March 26-27, 2007

@Kanazawa University,

Special Lecture Planned by The Executive Committee:
“Sports in Pre-War High Schools”
by Hideaki Ohkubo (Hitotsubashi University)

Symposium Designed by The ExecutiveCommittee:
“Space of Sport and Sport of Space: City and State in the Prewar Japan”

Presentations: 1) “Urban Spaces Created by Sports: The Tokyo Olympic Games as Project“
by Yuji Ishizaka (Tsukuba University)
2) “Urban Space and Sports Administration in Wartime”
by Naoki Seki (Hirosaki Gakuin University)
3) “Leisure Space in Sendai during the War”
by Naoki Yoshihara (Touhoku University)
Commentators: Yasuhiro Sakaue (Fukushima University)
Takato Ozawa (Tokyo University)
Natsuko Saka (Hitotsubashi University)

International Symposium:
“Globalization and Sports in Asia”

Moderators : Atsuo Sugimotoi (Kyoto University of Education)
Takayuki Yamashita (Ritsumeikan University)
Presentations: 1) “Globalization and Sports”
by Steve Jackson (University of Otago, New Zealand)
2) “Professional Sports and Rise and Fall of Athletes: Focusing on Sumo in Japan”
by Shin Ihan (University of South Carolina, The U.S.A.)
3) Soon-Hee Whang (Tsukuba University)
Commentator: Kwan Hyomin (Kwan-un University, Korea)