Main Readings
- Almeida, B. S. d., Marchi Júnior, W., & Pike, E. (2014). The 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Brazil’s soft power. Contemporary Social Science, 9(2), 271-283.
- Bookman, Mark (forthcoming). Politics, Prosthetics, and Public Imaginations: 150 years of disability in Japan. xxx, xx: xxx. .
- Buruma, Ian (2004). Inventing Japan: 1853-1964. Random House Digital, Inc.
- Cashman, R. & others (2002). Impact of the Games on Olympic host cities. Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Olympics (UAB).
- Djité, P. G. (2009). Language policy at major sporting events. Current Issues in Language Planning, 10(2), 221-233.
- Droubie, P. (2011). Phoenix arisen: Japan as peaceful internationalist at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 28(16), 2309-2322.
- Kietlinski, R. (2016). Japan in the Olympics, the Olympics in Japan. Education About ASIA, 21(2).
- Kietlinski, Robin (2011). Japanese women and sport: Beyond baseball and sumo. A&C Black.
- Lie, John (2009). Multiethnic japan. Harvard University Press.
- Looney, D. & Lusin, N. (2019). Enrollments in Languages Other Than English in United States Institutions of Higher Education, Summer 2016 and Fall 2016 Final Report. Modern Language Association.
- Miller, Ian Jared, Thomas, Julia Adeney, & Walker, Brett L (2013). Japan at Nature’s Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power. University of Hawai’i Press.
- Muñoz, F. (2006). Olympic urbanism and Olympic villages: Planning strategies in Olympic host cities, London 1908 to London 2012. The Sociological Review, 54(2), 175-187.
- Roche, M. (2002). The Olympics and ‘global citizenship’. Citizenship Studies, 6(2), 165-181.
- Samuel, S. & Stubbs, W. (2013). Green Olympics, green legacies? An exploration of the environmental legacies of the Olympic Games. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 48(4), 485-504.
- Short, J. R. (2008). Globalization, cities and the Summer Olympics. City, 12(3), 321-340.
- Waitt, G. (2003). Social impacts of the Sydney Olympics. Annals of tourism research, 30(1), 194-215.