Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu
Biographic Data
| ID | 6345605 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sayuri |
| FAMILY NAME | Guthrie-Shimizu |
| SIGNATURE | GUTHRIE-SHIMIZU S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rice University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Crisis in Pro Baseball and Japan's Lost Decade
Diffusion and Transformation of Western Sports in North Asia
This chapter tracks the diffusion of Western-style athletic culture in Japan and Korea since the late nineteenth century. It argues that modern teach sport was introduced to Japan and Korea by British and American educators and Christian missionaries. Many Western team sports were introduced to North Asia by the YMCA. Japan sought excellence in Olympic sports before World War II as evidence of its modernity. Sport served in Korea as a mechanism f…
Japan’s sports diplomacy in the early post-Second World War years
This essay outlines key cases of sports diplomacy practiced by Japan with the assistance of the Allied Occupation Authorities after the Second World War. Both Japan and the occupation overlord employed sports to good effect as a tool for reshaping Japan’s national image as one of a rule-abiding civilized society and buttressing the idea of US–Japanese friendship during the Cold War. Both amateur and professional sports heroes played a part in the…
Japan and the 2012 London Olympics
This essay draws the contours of the Japanese response to the 2012 London Olympics and the Games' perceived relevance to Japan's sports administration in the coming decades. The analysis is based on Japanese mass media reports and press commentaries that appeared in Japan's four leading national dailies (Asahi, Mainichi, Yomiuri and Sankei) and the Nippon Keizai Shinbun (Nikkei; the Japanese equivalent of the Wall Street Journal) before, during a…
Transpacific Field of Dreams
"Baseball has connected America and Japan, even in times of strife, for over 150 years. After the 'opening' of Japan by Commodore Matthew C. Perry, Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu explains, baseball was introduced there by American employees of the Japanese government tasked with bringing Western knowledge and technology to the country, and Japanese students in the United States soon became avid players. In the early twentieth century, visiting Japanese w…
A Day to Remember, a Day to Forget
7 December 1941—the date of Japan's surprise attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor—was a life-altering moment for a generation of Americans. It has been seared into the nation's collective memory with the blazing epitaph, “a day of infamy.” In American popular imagination, Pearl Harbor has been inducted into the pantheon of historic war cries “to remember,” along with the Alamo and the Maine. But just what that infamy entailed and how it is re…
For Love of the Game
Baseball in Early U.S.-Japanese Encounters and the Rise of a Transnational Sporting Fraternity*In the 1970s and early 1980s the world underwent profound change, and it was not because of cataclysmic events in high politics.With this sweeping observation, Walter LaFeber opens Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism, a bold synthesis of the study of America's global influences in contemporary life and the history of sport.It was not, LaFeber a…
Japan’s sports diplomacy in the early post-Second World War years
This essay outlines key cases of sports diplomacy practiced by Japan with the assistance of the Allied Occupation Authorities after the Second World War. Both Japan and the occupation overlord employed sports to good effect as a tool for reshaping Japan’s national image as one of a rule-abiding civilized society and buttressing the idea of US–Japanese friendship during the Cold War. Both amateur and professional sports heroes played a part in the…
Japan and the 2012 London Olympics
This essay draws the contours of the Japanese response to the 2012 London Olympics and the Games' perceived relevance to Japan's sports administration in the coming decades. The analysis is based on Japanese mass media reports and press commentaries that appeared in Japan's four leading national dailies (Asahi, Mainichi, Yomiuri and Sankei) and the Nippon Keizai Shinbun (Nikkei; the Japanese equivalent of the Wall Street Journal) before, during a…
For Love of the Game
Baseball in Early U.S.-Japanese Encounters and the Rise of a Transnational Sporting Fraternity*In the 1970s and early 1980s the world underwent profound change, and it was not because of cataclysmic events in high politics.With this sweeping observation, Walter LaFeber opens Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism, a bold synthesis of the study of America's global influences in contemporary life and the history of sport.It was not, LaFeber a…
A Day to Remember, a Day to Forget
7 December 1941—the date of Japan's surprise attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor—was a life-altering moment for a generation of Americans. It has been seared into the nation's collective memory with the blazing epitaph, “a day of infamy.” In American popular imagination, Pearl Harbor has been inducted into the pantheon of historic war cries “to remember,” along with the Alamo and the Maine. But just what that infamy entailed and how it is re…
Transpacific Field of Dreams
"Baseball has connected America and Japan, even in times of strife, for over 150 years. After the 'opening' of Japan by Commodore Matthew C. Perry, Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu explains, baseball was introduced there by American employees of the Japanese government tasked with bringing Western knowledge and technology to the country, and Japanese students in the United States soon became avid players. In the early twentieth century, visiting Japanese w…
Japan’s sports diplomacy in the early post-Second World War years
This essay outlines key cases of sports diplomacy practiced by Japan with the assistance of the Allied Occupation Authorities after the Second World War. Both Japan and the occupation overlord employed sports to good effect as a tool for reshaping Japan’s national image as one of a rule-abiding civilized society and buttressing the idea of US–Japanese friendship during the Cold War. Both amateur and professional sports heroes played a part in the…
Japan and the 2012 London Olympics
This essay draws the contours of the Japanese response to the 2012 London Olympics and the Games' perceived relevance to Japan's sports administration in the coming decades. The analysis is based on Japanese mass media reports and press commentaries that appeared in Japan's four leading national dailies (Asahi, Mainichi, Yomiuri and Sankei) and the Nippon Keizai Shinbun (Nikkei; the Japanese equivalent of the Wall Street Journal) before, during a…
Diffusion and Transformation of Western Sports in North Asia
This chapter tracks the diffusion of Western-style athletic culture in Japan and Korea since the late nineteenth century. It argues that modern teach sport was introduced to Japan and Korea by British and American educators and Christian missionaries. Many Western team sports were introduced to North Asia by the YMCA. Japan sought excellence in Olympic sports before World War II as evidence of its modernity. Sport served in Korea as a mechanism f…
The Crisis in Pro Baseball and Japan's Lost Decade
History (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Economic history (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (3 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (3 works)