Internationalising Japan: Discourse and Practice ed. by Jeremy Breaden, Stacey Steele, and Carolyn S. Stevens (review)

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Reviewed by: Internationalising Japan: Discourse and Practice ed. by Jeremy Breaden, Stacey Steele, and Carolyn S. Stevens Peter Cave (bio) Internationalising Japan: Discourse and Practice. Edited by Jeremy Breaden, Stacey Steele, and Carolyn S. Stevens. Routledge, London, 2014. xiv, 212 pages. $155.00. Developed from papers presented at the 2011 conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia, this edited collection of essays focuses [End Page 468] mainly on sport, education, and culture. The book does not deal with economics or business, except tangentially in relation to sport and restaurants. The three complementary essays on sport are among the strongest in the book. A good place to start is Howard Gilbert and Katrina Watts’s chapter, “Internationalising Sumo,” which gives a fascinating overview of sumo’s international interactions since the Meiji period and stimulates thought about the varying significance of international interaction in modern Japanese history. Gilbe

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