Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Sporting Practices Before the Black Ships -- 1 Sumo, Ball Games, and Feats of Strength -- 2 Martial Techniques -- Part II Modern Times -- 3 The Arrival and Diffusion of Western Sports -- 4 The Modernization of Indigenous Sports -- 5 Japan at the Olympics: 1912-1940 -- 6 From Taisho Democracy to Japanese Fascism -- Part III Postwar Sports -- 7 Rising from the Ashes -- 8 Japan at the Olympics: 1952-1998 -- 9 New Directions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Plates follow page 150.