17th Annual Conference, March 17-18, 2008
@Chukyo University
Symposium Planned by Conference Executive Committee:
“The Changing Face of Japanese Professional Baseball”
Guest Speakers:
Seijun Ninomiya (Sports Journalist)
Kunio Yoshida (Chiba Lotte Marines)
Tetsushi Shibata (Nippon Television Network Corporation)
Commentator : Satoshi Shimizu (Tsukuba University)
Moderator : Tetsuro Nishiyama (Chukyo University)
Symposium Planned by International Exchange Committee:
“Traditional Sports and Social Change in Asia”
Presentations:
1) “Prospects and Social Transformations of Teakwondo in Korea”
by Park, Jin Kyung (Kwandon University)
2) “The Problem of the Modernization of Sumo as a Traditional Japanese Sport”
by Lee Thompson (Waseda University)
3) “The Differentiation and Extension of Swimming from a Competitive Sport to a Healthy Exercise”
by Takeo Nomura (Tsukuba University)
Commentator : Kimio Itoh (Kyoto University)
Moderators :
Soon-Hee Whang (Tsukuba University)
Takayuki Yamashita (Ritsumeikan University)
Symposium Planned by The Research Committee:
“Methodological Nationalism: Critical Examining the Complicity of Media Discourse and Nationalism”
Moderator: Hiroki Ogasawara (Kobe University)
Presentations :
1) “Discourse in Sports: Focusing on Soccer-”
by Hiroyuki Morita (Journalist)
2) “Nationalism in Body Theory”
by Atsuhisa Yamamoto (Sophia University)
3) “The Emergence of Nationalism in Professional Japanese Sumo”
by Rikidou Tomikawa (Mongolian Bukh Club)
