Beyond the "Black Clubs"

Aaron L. Miller is a lecturer in the Departments of Kinesiology at California State University, East Bay (CSUEB), San Jose State University (SJSU), and at St. Mary’s College of California, where he teaches a range of courses in sociology, history, anthropology, and philosophy to undergraduate and graduate students.Atsushi Nakazawa, after working as a lecturer and associate professor at Hitotsubashi University's Graduate School of Social Sciences, became an associate professor and later full professor at Waseda University's School of Sport Sciences. Atsushi Nakazawa specializes in the sociology of sports, physical education, and social welfare.

• 1. Introduction: “black clubs” and “trophy kids”.- 2. (Philosophy/theory) why should we care about youth sports at all?.- 3. (Sociology/anthropology) statistics, culture and policy.- 4. (History) a brief history of youth sports before the modern period.- 5. (History) how did youth sports policy in Japan develop?.- 6. (Philosophy/anthropology) how Japanese adults came to expect Japanese youth athletes to be disciplined like a monk, tough like a samurai, moral like a sportsman, and deferential to authority like a good Japanese group member, but left little room for unfettered play.- 7. (Philosophy/anthropology) what localizing western sports did for Japan.- 8. (Crosscultural comparison) youth sports in Japan and the us.