Friday, April 16, 2010
Research Topic: Sports in Sendai
Soccer, baseball and figure skating are the prevalent sporting events in Sendai. The first professional sport in Sendai was soccer and it did not arrive until 1994. I would like to do extensive research on why Sendai was ignored by the professional sporting world until 1994. Also, I would like to learn why soccer, as opposed to baseball and figure skating, was the first professional sport in Sendai. I chose to research sports becuase I have played sports my entire life and I wanted a research topic that interested me. Also, I would like to attend a sporting event while in Sendai.
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This is a very interesting topic that you'll certainly have fun researching in Japan. The challenge here will be whether you can come up with enough material about Sendai, specifically, for a paper. There are some books about sports in Japan, and there may be some material, including scholarship, available online. It would seem that your topic would lead naturally to a discussion of the economic and cultural factors involved in professional sports. What I mean by "cultural" is, for example, how teams, etc., are established in "regional" parts of Japan (the periphery, as opposed to the center). It is interesting, for example, that the main sumo tournaments are divided so that of the six per year, three are in Tokyo and one each is in Nagoya, Osaka and Fukuoka. Tohoku (the region north of Tokyo, which includes Sendai) is notably absent. It's fair to ask why.
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