K Kawashima
Biographic Data
| ID | 28094 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Kawashima |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Kawashima |
| SIGNATURE | KAWASHIMA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Waseda University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2196-0556 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Preliminary effects of a four-month circuit training intervention on cognitive function and exploratory plasma proteomic profiles in middle-aged and older women
Background Although exercise can help prevent age-related cognitive decline, the mechanisms underlying its effects on cognition, immune function remain unclear. Therefore, this study comprehensively examined the effects of circuit training on cognitive function, and the plasma proteome in middle-aged to older women. Methods Forty-eight women were assigned to either a four-month circuit training program ( n = 23, exercising more than twice per wee…
From feminine leisure to urban craze
This paper investigates the gendered popularization of badminton in semi-colonial and wartime Shanghai between 1912 and 1949, focusing on how the sport moved from expatriate enclaves into local society, how women entered and were represented within this process, and how its inherited gender meanings were reworked in China. This article is a historical study based on newspapers and other primary archival sources. By situating badminton's developme…
Becomings beyond the ideal
As women's fitness gains cultural visibility in China, it has become a key site for contesting dominant baishouyou beauty ideals (fair-skinned, slim, youthful). Grounded in Feminist New Materialism (FNM), this paper examines Women Fitness , a women-only Douban community, as a feminist counterpublic that reconfigures fitness from a neoliberal “self as project” into a collective infrastructure of care and resistance. Using a mixed-methods design th…
‘Save the national squad or go get educated?’
Sport is often deemed a desirable pathway for marginalized youth to make better futures, which has consolidated the well-beloved narrative of sport as a ‘way out’ for the disadvantaged, drawing substantial attention from academic fields such as sport for development and peace (SDP). Although this narrative is relevant to modern China, it also intersects with a long-standing disdain for physical labor, placing grassroots sports professionals in a …
Play Days and the Elastic Languages of Reform
Promoted under the elastic slogan ‘every girl in a game and a game for every girl’, Play Days were celebrated as ‘democratic’ programmes. Organized by colleges, YWCA branches, settlement houses, municipal recreation departments, and rural schools, they embodied the conservative-progressive emphasis on health, social bonds, and group cooperation while modified by gender. When social efficiency reformers used athletics to cultivate loyalty and civi…
Preservation and adaptation
Introduction Kendo, a Japanese martial art rooted in traditional swordsmanship, has spread internationally. The art maintains strong cultural ties to Japan. As the global practitioner base expands, questions arise about how kendo is adapted in different cultural contexts and to what extent its original values and traditions are preserved. This qualitative study explored how cultural background influences kendo instruction by comparing the perspec…
Basketball in Japan
The Spread of Karate in the People’s Republic of China
Karate was introduced to China and began to spread in 1990. The Chinese Karate Association was established in 2008. Karate was promoted to an official National Games event in 2017. Today, karate dojos across China have increased to more than 20,000. What factors have supported this rapid development? Previous studies have found practical and ideological factors from the perspective of fixed-point observation based on questionnaire surveys. In con…
A fitness obligation or indispensable pastime? A capability-informed inquiry into the developmental impacts of tiyu(体育) on college students in multi-ethnic China
The ‘Masculinisation’ of Basketball in Japan during the Meiji, Taisho, and Early Showa Eras (the 1890s–1930s)
Sport has the character of a physical practice that is based on rules. Originally, these rules and practices did not harbour gendered characteristics such as ‘masculinity’ or ‘femininity.’ Sport, however, has frequently been described in connection with masculinity and femininity. Baseball, football, and rugby, for example, have long been synonymous with masculine sports in Japan, although the number of female competitors has increased in recent …
The Birth of Sports Medicine in Prewar Japan
The relationship between sports and medicine in Japan has remained largely unexplored by historians. This paper aims to clarify the historical context in which the relationship became closer and the professional practice called ‘sports medicine’ grew in relation to the social and political situation surrounding sports around 1930 in prewar Japan. From the late-1920s to the early 1930s, the view on sports of sports medical scientists, who had come…
US-Based Historical Studies of Sports and the Academe of Japan and China
This overview, based on the categorization by Mark Dyreson at Pennsylvania State University of researchers into “historians of sports” and “sports historians” reveals that, in the United States, a close relationship between the two groups that originated in the 1970s is now facing a critical moment. In Japan, both groups have maintained a steady relationship since the 1980s, while historians of sports have taken a leading position as reflected in…
We Will Try Again, Again, Again to Make It Bigger’
This study is to analyse how the Japanese have traditionally received and currently perceive the Super Bowl, and for this purpose, it aims to locate the position of American football in Japanese history, society, and culture. It explores the game’s history and then examine the degree of its spread among Japan’s sporting population. A two-dimensional approach of historical study and inter-game comparison gives context to the analyses of reference …
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We Will Try Again, Again, Again to Make It Bigger’
This study is to analyse how the Japanese have traditionally received and currently perceive the Super Bowl, and for this purpose, it aims to locate the position of American football in Japanese history, society, and culture. It explores the game’s history and then examine the degree of its spread among Japan’s sporting population. A two-dimensional approach of historical study and inter-game comparison gives context to the analyses of reference …
The Birth of Sports Medicine in Prewar Japan
The relationship between sports and medicine in Japan has remained largely unexplored by historians. This paper aims to clarify the historical context in which the relationship became closer and the professional practice called ‘sports medicine’ grew in relation to the social and political situation surrounding sports around 1930 in prewar Japan. From the late-1920s to the early 1930s, the view on sports of sports medical scientists, who had come…
US-Based Historical Studies of Sports and the Academe of Japan and China
This overview, based on the categorization by Mark Dyreson at Pennsylvania State University of researchers into “historians of sports” and “sports historians” reveals that, in the United States, a close relationship between the two groups that originated in the 1970s is now facing a critical moment. In Japan, both groups have maintained a steady relationship since the 1980s, while historians of sports have taken a leading position as reflected in…
The ‘Masculinisation’ of Basketball in Japan during the Meiji, Taisho, and Early Showa Eras (the 1890s–1930s)
Sport has the character of a physical practice that is based on rules. Originally, these rules and practices did not harbour gendered characteristics such as ‘masculinity’ or ‘femininity.’ Sport, however, has frequently been described in connection with masculinity and femininity. Baseball, football, and rugby, for example, have long been synonymous with masculine sports in Japan, although the number of female competitors has increased in recent …
The Spread of Karate in the People’s Republic of China
Karate was introduced to China and began to spread in 1990. The Chinese Karate Association was established in 2008. Karate was promoted to an official National Games event in 2017. Today, karate dojos across China have increased to more than 20,000. What factors have supported this rapid development? Previous studies have found practical and ideological factors from the perspective of fixed-point observation based on questionnaire surveys. In con…
A fitness obligation or indispensable pastime? A capability-informed inquiry into the developmental impacts of tiyu(体育) on college students in multi-ethnic China
Preservation and adaptation
Introduction Kendo, a Japanese martial art rooted in traditional swordsmanship, has spread internationally. The art maintains strong cultural ties to Japan. As the global practitioner base expands, questions arise about how kendo is adapted in different cultural contexts and to what extent its original values and traditions are preserved. This qualitative study explored how cultural background influences kendo instruction by comparing the perspec…
Basketball in Japan
Preliminary effects of a four-month circuit training intervention on cognitive function and exploratory plasma proteomic profiles in middle-aged and older women
Background Although exercise can help prevent age-related cognitive decline, the mechanisms underlying its effects on cognition, immune function remain unclear. Therefore, this study comprehensively examined the effects of circuit training on cognitive function, and the plasma proteome in middle-aged to older women. Methods Forty-eight women were assigned to either a four-month circuit training program ( n = 23, exercising more than twice per wee…
From feminine leisure to urban craze
This paper investigates the gendered popularization of badminton in semi-colonial and wartime Shanghai between 1912 and 1949, focusing on how the sport moved from expatriate enclaves into local society, how women entered and were represented within this process, and how its inherited gender meanings were reworked in China. This article is a historical study based on newspapers and other primary archival sources. By situating badminton's developme…
Becomings beyond the ideal
As women's fitness gains cultural visibility in China, it has become a key site for contesting dominant baishouyou beauty ideals (fair-skinned, slim, youthful). Grounded in Feminist New Materialism (FNM), this paper examines Women Fitness , a women-only Douban community, as a feminist counterpublic that reconfigures fitness from a neoliberal “self as project” into a collective infrastructure of care and resistance. Using a mixed-methods design th…
‘Save the national squad or go get educated?’
Sport is often deemed a desirable pathway for marginalized youth to make better futures, which has consolidated the well-beloved narrative of sport as a ‘way out’ for the disadvantaged, drawing substantial attention from academic fields such as sport for development and peace (SDP). Although this narrative is relevant to modern China, it also intersects with a long-standing disdain for physical labor, placing grassroots sports professionals in a …
Play Days and the Elastic Languages of Reform
Promoted under the elastic slogan ‘every girl in a game and a game for every girl’, Play Days were celebrated as ‘democratic’ programmes. Organized by colleges, YWCA branches, settlement houses, municipal recreation departments, and rural schools, they embodied the conservative-progressive emphasis on health, social bonds, and group cooperation while modified by gender. When social efficiency reformers used athletics to cultivate loyalty and civi…
Sports, Gender, and Society (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (6 works) · History (5 works) · China (4 works) · Football (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)