On Sporting Nationalism : Research Methodology

There are some theories that with globalization nationalisms will disappear, but nationalisms have been growing more and more. In sport, the number of international sporting events is increasing and sporting nationalism is becoming more and more obvious. Recently sporting nationalism and its relationship with (political) nationalism has been focused on. In this paper the author analyzed sporting nationalism in Japan and compared it with that of the United Kingdom, where researches on sporting nationalism are the most advanced in the world. For the premise of sporting nationalism, a certain level of nationalism and national sport will be needed. In the case of Japan, where nationalism has been ambiguous and sport is not of cultural importance, sporting nationalism is unclear. Therefore, research on sporting nationalism in Japan reflects the current. The author reviewed the previous researches and identified some research problems. The aim of research on sporting nationalism and its relation with nationalism is to approach the theme of 'sport and peace'. Sport Sociology aims to research the relationship between sport and society. There are a lot of researches from the aspect of 'how society influenced sport,' but there are fewer from 'how sport influenced society.' This research will be one method of approaching the latter topic