Significance and Roles of Sports in Establishing Identities among the Newly Migrated.

• Project/Area Number: 21500590
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sports science
• Research Institution: Shiga University
• Principal Investigator: HIRAI Hajime 滋賀大学, 教育学部, 教授 (70199032)
• Project Period (FY): 2009 – 2011
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2011)
• Budget Amount: ¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
• Keywords: スポーツ / グローバル化 / ラグビー / サッカー / 野球 / オーストラリア / 韓国 / 台湾 / 移民 / 同化 / 地域社会 / スポーツ社会学

Research Abstract

The primary purpose of this research is to investigate relationships between(1) rugby and immigrants from the South Pacific in Australia,(2) soccer and immigrants from South and Eastern Europe in Australia,(3) sports and an athletic and social club established by Europeans and Americans in Japan, and(4) baseball in Taiwan and Korea during the colonial and postcolonial periods and Japanese, Taiwanese in Japan and Koreans in Japan. Research results indicate sports have played important and effective roles for immigrants to establish their sense of identities.

Research Products

• [Presentation] Glocalisation of baseball in Japan, Korea and Taiwan (2011)
  • Author(s): Hajime Hirai
  • Organizer: The 3rd International Society for the Social Sciences of Sport
  • Place of Presentation: Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
  • Year and Date: 2011-09-24
• [Presentation] Glocalisation of baseball in Japan, Korea and Taiwan (2011)
  • Author(s): Hajime Hirai
  • Organizer: The 3rd International Society for the Social Sciences of Sport
  • Place of Presentation: Palacky University, Plomouc, Czech Tepublic
  • Year and Date: 2011-09-24
• [Presentation] Rugby in Japan' Soft Power Politics-Origins and Evolution International IJHS Conference/Workshop (2011)
  • Author(s): Hajime Hirai
  • Organizer: Cairns Institute
  • Place of Presentation: James Cook University, Cairns, Australia
  • Year and Date: 2011-04-30
• [Presentation] Rugby in Japan (2011)
  • Author(s): Hajime Hirai
  • Organizer: Soft Power Politics-Origins and Evolution International IJHS Conference/Workshop
  • Place of Presentation: Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia
  • Year and Date: 2011-04-30
• [Presentation] Contemporary Issue in the World of Sumo (2011)
  • Author(s): Hajime Hirai
  • Organizer: School of Sport and Exercise Science Seminar
  • Place of Presentation: Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
  • Year and Date: 2011-03-08
• [Presentation] Contemporary Issue in the World of Sumo (2011)
  • Author(s): Hajime Hirai
  • Organizer: School of Sport and Exercise Science Seminar
  • Place of Presentation: Victoria Universityメルボルン、オーストラリア
  • Year and Date: 2011-03-08
• [Presentation] グローバル化とアジアのスポーツ (2010)
  • Author(s): 平井肇
  • Organizer: AJフォーラム
  • Place of Presentation: 国士舘大学
  • Year and Date: 2010-01-30
• [Book] グローバル化の光と影 (2012)
  • Author(s): 平井肇
  • Publisher: ミネルヴァ書房
• [Book] 「グローバル化の光と影」『よくわかるスポーツ文化論』150-151(井上俊・菊幸一編著) (2012)
  • Author(s): 平井肇
  • Total Pages: 204
  • Publisher: ミネルヴァ書房
• [Book] よくわかるスポーツ文化論(井上俊 菊幸一編著)(グローバル化の光と影) (2011)
  • Author(s): 平井肇
  • Publisher: ミネルヴァ書房(9月発刊予定)