Transpacific Field of Dreams
How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War
Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 04/2012
Pages: 344
Subject: Sports and Recreation, History
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807882665
DESCRIPTION
From early on, Guthrie-Shimizu argues, baseball carried American values to Japan, and by the mid-twentieth century, the sport had become emblematic of Japan's modernization and of America's growing influence in the Pacific world. Guthrie-Shimizu contends that baseball provides unique insight into U.S.-Japanese relations during times of war and peace and, in fact, is central to understanding postwar reconciliation. In telling this often surprising history, Transpacific Field of Dreams shines a light on globalization's unlikely, and at times accidental, participants.