Abstract des Autors

Vom 18. bis 20. März 2009 fand in Brüssel die Tagung „Remember the glory days of the nation: sport as lieu de mémoire in Japan” statt. Die Referenten und ihre Beiträge der Tagung sind: Andreas Niehaus, Christian Tagsold - Remembering the glory days of the nation - sport as lieux de mémoire in Japan; Gertrud Pfister - Les lieux de mémoire of sports; Andreas Niehaus - Swimming into memory: the Los Angeles Olympics (1932) as Japanese lieu de mémoire; Christian Tagsold - High-tech and the oriental witches. The Tôyô no Majô and "rolling dive" as lieux de mémoire; Robin Kietlinski - One world one dream?: twenty-first century Japanese perspectives on hosting the Olympic Games; John Horne - Football and the 2002 World Cup; Jilly Traganou - Olympics (1940/1964) as places of national design; William Kelly - Team rivalries, regional struggles: baseball stadiums as sites of memory in 20th century Japan; Takahashi Yoshio - From national event to local memory - World Cup 2002; Aaron Skabelund - Fighting for country-twice: the glorification of Japanese Olympic soldiers during the Asia-Pacific war; Abe Ikuo - The emergence of Supokon-Manga: Japanese pop-culture as lieu de mémoire; Lee Thompson - Rikidozan and professional wrestling as lieu de mémoire in Japan. Der vorliegende Tagungsbericht vom 18.04.2009 stellt die wesentlichen Inhalte der Tagung dar.