Tokyo 2020 and Beyond: Legacies from Hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games
Now that the countdown clock to the Tokyo Olympics has been reset, revisit a 2018 podcast episode of a roundtable discussion between 3 experts of sport mega-events: Dr. HARADA Munehiko (Waseda University), Dr. John D. Horne (Waseda University), and Dr. Wolfram Manzenreiter (University of Vienna).
Organized by the German Institute for Japanese Studies, this podcast discusses the political economy of hosting the Olympic Games, the difficulties of message control, and the legacies of the Games for Japan in the 2020s. Listen to the podcast here.