Books published by Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press

Examines the revival of Japanese baseball in the occupation era, focusing on how the US government carried out its cultural diplomacy policy within the arena of sports. The chapters hone in on various means by which the US via GHQ controlled and fostered sports in Japan as a form of cultural diplomacy.

In this study, a group of young Japanese sociologists scrutinizes the sociological foundations of the ways in which the Japanese people produce and consume cultural commodities and live their everyday lives surrounded by these products.

Since the Fukushima nuclear accident, Japan has seen a significant revival in its social activism, with large-scale social movements appearing. This book characterizes these movements as 'amorphous' based on the phenomenon in which movements are formed by diverse and disparate people and display disparate, disorganized and undefined elements.