A | The Sportscape of Modern Japan
“Introduction: Sports and Sport Studies in Japan,” in William W. Kelly (editor), This Sporting Life: Sports and Body Culture in Modern Japan, pp. 1-15. CEAS Occasional Publications, Volume 1. New Haven: Yale University Council on East Asian Studies
“The Sportscape of Contemporary Japan,” in Theodore C. Bestor and Victoria Lyon Bester (editors), The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Society and Culture, pp. 251-262. New York: Routledge.
“Adversity, Acceptance, and Accomplishment: Female Athletes in Japan’s Modern Sportsworld,” Asia-Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science 2(2), 2013
“Japan’s embrace of soccer: Mutable ethnic players and flexible soccer citizenship in the new East Asian sports order,” International Journal of the History of Sport 30(9), 2013
“From Gender Binary to Sport Androgyny? Female Athletes in Japan’s Modern Sportsworld,” in Peter Horton (editor), Manufacturing Masculinity. Chapter 7, pages 111-128. Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2017
“Failure in Sport: Accepting Disappointment in Japanese Professional Baseball,” IIAS Newsletter, number 28, August, 2002
“What Does Sport Tell Us About the Artifice of Sport and Technology?“ Global Perspectives on Japan 1(1):157-176, 2017
“Sports as Hard Work and Serious Play,” in Nana Okura Gagne and Isaac Gagné (editors), Handbook of Work and Leisure in Japan. Tokyo: MHM Japan Documents, 2024
B | Baseball: Japan’s 20th-Century Pastime
“The Spirit and Spectacle of School Baseball: Mass Media, Statemaking, and ‘Edu-tainment’ in Japan, 1905-1935,” in Umesao Tadao, William W. Kelly, and Kubo Masatoshi (eds.), Japanese Civilization in the Modern World XIV: Information and Communication, pp. 105-116. Senri Ethnological Studies #52. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 2000
“Samurai Baseball: The Vicissitudes of a National Sporting Style,” International Journal of the History of Sport 26(3, March): 1-13, 2009
“Baseball in Japan: The National Game beyond National Character,” in Baseball as America: Seeing Ourselves through Our National Game. Pages 47-52. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society.
“Blood and Guts in Japanese Professional Baseball.” In Sepp Linhart and Sabine Frühstück (eds.), The Culture of Japan as Seen Through Its Leisure, pp. 95-112. Albany: SUNY Press, 1998
“Learning to Swing: Oh Sadaharu and the Pedagogy and Practice of Japanese Professional Baseball.” In John Singleton (ed.), Learning in Likely Places, pp. 422-458. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998
“Kōshien Stadium: Performing National Virtues and Regional Rivalries in a “Theater of Sport,’” Sport in Society 14(4): 481-493, 2011
“Men at Work or Boys of Summer? The Workplaces of Professional Baseball in Contemporary Japan,” in William W. Kelly (editor), This Sporting Life: Sports and Body Culture in Modern Japan, pp. 247-262. CEAS Occasional Publications, Volume 1. New Haven: Yale University Council on East Asian Studies, 2007
“Caught in the Spin Cycle: An Anthropological Observer at the Sites of Japanese Professional Baseball,” in Susan O. Long (ed.), Moving Targets: Composing Circles of Self and Community in Japan, pages 137-149. Ithaca: Cornell University East Asia Program, 2000
“Sense and Sensibility at the Ball Park: What Japanese Fans Make of Professional Baseball” in W.W. Kelly (editor), Fanning the Flames: Fandoms and Consumer Culture in Contemporary Japan, pages 79-108. Albany: SUNY Press, 2004
“Japan: The Hanshin Tigers and Professional Baseball in Japan,” in George Gmelch (editor), Baseball without Borders: The International Pastime, pages 22-42. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006
“Japan: Professional Baseball in 21st-Century Japan,” in George Gmelch and Daniel Nathan (editors), Baseball without Borders: The International Pastime. Second edition. Chapter 10, pages 183-202. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017.
“Baseball: Japan’s National Pastime,” in Handbook of Sport and Japan, edited by Helen Macnaughtan and Verity Postlethwaite. Tokyo: MHM Press, 2024.
“Is Baseball a Global Sport? America’s ‘National Pastime’ as Global Field and International Sport,” Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs 7(2): 187-201, 2007
“The Ubiquitous Baseball Cap: Identity, Style, and Comfort in Late Modern Times,” Journal of Consumer Culture [Special issue on Global Sport and Consumption.] 18(1): 261-278, 2018
“Summer’s Kōshien—A Field of Dreams and Drama,” Asahi Evening News, page 8, August 7, 199.
“Same Sport, Different Structure,” LOOK JAPAN 44(510, September):28-29, 1998.
C | Japan and the Olympic Movement
“Preface,” in William W Kelly and Susan Brownell (editors), ) The Olympics in East Asia: Nationalism, Regionalism, and Globalism on the Center Stage of World Sports. Pages 1-4. CEAS Occasional Publications. Volume 3. New Haven: Yale University Council on East Asian Studies, 2011
“Asia Pride, China Fear, Tokyo Anxiety: Japan Looks Back at 2008 Beijing and Forward to 2012 London and 2016 Tokyo,” International Journal of the History of Sport 27(14): 2428-2439, 2010
“Beijing and the Limits of Exceptionalism,” in William W Kelly and Susan Brownell (editors), The Olympics in East Asia: Nationalism, Regionalism, and Globalism on the Center Stage of World Sports, pages 5-18. CEAS Occasional Publications, Volume 3. New Haven: Yale University Council on East Asian Studies, 2011
“Olympic Normalcy: Why Beijing 2008 Wasn’t Exceptional,” International Journal of the History of Sport 28(16):2261-2270, 2011 [Spanish translation “Normalidad Olímpica: Por qué Beijing 2008 no fue excepcional,” Citius, Altius, Fortius: Humanismo, Sociedad y Deporte: Investigaciones y Ensayos 4(1):55-72, 2011.]
“National ambitions, regional geopolitics, soft power impacts.” In Ren Tianwei, Ikeda Keiko and Woo Chang Wan (editors), Media, sport, nationalism. East Asia: Soft power projection via the modern Olympic Games. Berlin, Logos Verlag: 1-5, 2019.
“Bringing the Circus to Town: An Anatomy of the Olympic Movement.” The Asia Pacific E-Journal: Japan Focus 18 (5-3): 1-18. March 1, 2020.
D | Sport across Asia
“Globalisation, Soccer, and the Sportsworlds of Japan, Australia and the United States,” in Jeremy Breadon, Stacey Steele, and Carolyn Stevens (editors), Internationalizing Japan as Discourse and Practice. Chapter 9, pages 142-157. London: Routledge, 2014.
“The Asian Sportscape: Hubs of Play and Flows of Contention,” in Helen Siu, Eric Tagliacozzo, and Peter C. Perdue (editors), Asia Inside Out, volume 3, pages 292-314, 2019
“Foreword: Cosmopolitan Global Maturity,” in J. A. Mangan, Luo Qing and Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu (editors), The Olympic Games: Asia Rising — London 2012 and Tokyo 2020. Pp.1-2. Beijing: Communication University of China Press, 2017.
