Andreas Niehaus
Biographic Data
| ID | 5670707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andreas Niehaus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andreas |
| FAMILY NAME | Niehaus |
| SIGNATURE | NIEHAUS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5943-8785 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ad Santel is Coming to Town
In February 1921, catch wrestlers Ad Santel and Henry Weber traveled to Japan to engage in several public bouts against fighters from the Kōdōkan judo school. The matches were held in a sumo ring at Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine and became a mega-event, attracting between 20,000 and 25,000 spectators. The Kōdōkan judo headquarters and the center’s founder Kanō Jigorō positioned themselves in opposition to the bouts to protect the Kōdōkan brand. What be…
I want to bring this light to those in despair” – the Tokyo 2020 torch relay and the creation of Olympic legacies
Mega sport events like the Olympic Games leave their marks on hosting nations and often become important lieux de mémoire in the history of a nation. In this article, I will analyze the Tokyo 2020 torch relay as a highly ritualistic and highly choreographed act that creates a space of and for symbolic practices and performances, and I will use it as a case study to show how the torch relay contributes to the creation of an Olympic legacy in Japan…
Narrating history in the manga ‘Jūdō no rekishi – Kanō Jigorō no shōgai’ (1987)
Kanō Jigorō (1860-1938), the founder of Kōdōkan Jūdō, is one of the most prominent representatives of modern Japanese martial arts and numerous books and articles have been written about his life. In this article I will focus on the biographical manga “Jūdō no rekishi – Kanō Jigorō no shōgai” (1987). This graphic biography was published under the editorship of the Kōdōkan and by analysing the techniques that are applied on the textual as well as …
Feeding Japan
Sport, Memory and Nationhood in Japan
This book clarifies and verifies the role sport has as an alternative marker in understanding and mapping memory in Japan, by applying the concept of lieux de mémoire (realms of memory) to sport in Japan. Japanese history and national construction have not been short of sports landmarks since the end of the nineteenth century. Western-style sports were introduced into Japan in order to modernize the country and develop a culture of consciousness …
Modernization and Identity Creation (1868–1920)
Western sports had been increasingly introduced to Japan by the middle of the nineteenth century. Sport became a symbol of the new, modern times and was adopted by the intellectual elite of Japan as a way to participate in and incorporate the physical culture of modernity. As a result pre-modern Japanese body techniques were considered to be inferior to Western body techniques during the first half of the Meiji-period (1868–1912). ‘Traditional’ J…
If you want to cry, cry on the green mats of Kôdôkan’
Kôdôkan judo was included in the Olympic programme for the first time in the 1964 Tokyo Games. Japanese efforts to have judo staged as an Olympic discipline had failed earlier. When judo was accepted as an Olympic sport during the 58th IOC meeting in 1960 at the Excelsior Hotel in Rome this was symbolically tantamount both to the fundamental rehabilitation of Japan as a nation and to the reintegration of the Axis powers into the ‘Olympic family’ …
If you want to cry, cry on the green mats of Kôdôkan’
Kôdôkan judo was included in the Olympic programme for the first time in the 1964 Tokyo Games. Japanese efforts to have judo staged as an Olympic discipline had failed earlier. When judo was accepted as an Olympic sport during the 58th IOC meeting in 1960 at the Excelsior Hotel in Rome this was symbolically tantamount both to the fundamental rehabilitation of Japan as a nation and to the reintegration of the Axis powers into the ‘Olympic family’ …
Modernization and Identity Creation (1868–1920)
Western sports had been increasingly introduced to Japan by the middle of the nineteenth century. Sport became a symbol of the new, modern times and was adopted by the intellectual elite of Japan as a way to participate in and incorporate the physical culture of modernity. As a result pre-modern Japanese body techniques were considered to be inferior to Western body techniques during the first half of the Meiji-period (1868–1912). ‘Traditional’ J…
If you want to cry, cry on the green mats of Kôdôkan’
Kôdôkan judo was included in the Olympic programme for the first time in the 1964 Tokyo Games. Japanese efforts to have judo staged as an Olympic discipline had failed earlier. When judo was accepted as an Olympic sport during the 58th IOC meeting in 1960 at the Excelsior Hotel in Rome this was symbolically tantamount both to the fundamental rehabilitation of Japan as a nation and to the reintegration of the Axis powers into the ‘Olympic family’ …
Modernization and Identity Creation (1868–1920)
Western sports had been increasingly introduced to Japan by the middle of the nineteenth century. Sport became a symbol of the new, modern times and was adopted by the intellectual elite of Japan as a way to participate in and incorporate the physical culture of modernity. As a result pre-modern Japanese body techniques were considered to be inferior to Western body techniques during the first half of the Meiji-period (1868–1912). ‘Traditional’ J…
Sport, Memory and Nationhood in Japan
This book clarifies and verifies the role sport has as an alternative marker in understanding and mapping memory in Japan, by applying the concept of lieux de mémoire (realms of memory) to sport in Japan. Japanese history and national construction have not been short of sports landmarks since the end of the nineteenth century. Western-style sports were introduced into Japan in order to modernize the country and develop a culture of consciousness …
Feeding Japan
Narrating history in the manga ‘Jūdō no rekishi – Kanō Jigorō no shōgai’ (1987)
Kanō Jigorō (1860-1938), the founder of Kōdōkan Jūdō, is one of the most prominent representatives of modern Japanese martial arts and numerous books and articles have been written about his life. In this article I will focus on the biographical manga “Jūdō no rekishi – Kanō Jigorō no shōgai” (1987). This graphic biography was published under the editorship of the Kōdōkan and by analysing the techniques that are applied on the textual as well as …
I want to bring this light to those in despair” – the Tokyo 2020 torch relay and the creation of Olympic legacies
Mega sport events like the Olympic Games leave their marks on hosting nations and often become important lieux de mémoire in the history of a nation. In this article, I will analyze the Tokyo 2020 torch relay as a highly ritualistic and highly choreographed act that creates a space of and for symbolic practices and performances, and I will use it as a case study to show how the torch relay contributes to the creation of an Olympic legacy in Japan…
Ad Santel is Coming to Town
In February 1921, catch wrestlers Ad Santel and Henry Weber traveled to Japan to engage in several public bouts against fighters from the Kōdōkan judo school. The matches were held in a sumo ring at Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine and became a mega-event, attracting between 20,000 and 25,000 spectators. The Kōdōkan judo headquarters and the center’s founder Kanō Jigorō positioned themselves in opposition to the bouts to protect the Kōdōkan brand. What be…
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