Reconsidering the Significance of Sports

本研究的目的是描述参加东京奥运会（1964年）、全国运动会（1973年和1987年）和高中棒球比赛的居住在冲绳的人是如何构建他们作为“冲绳人”和“日本人”的身份的。“在研究体育文化现象的复杂性和多面性时，有必要考虑到来自冲绳的人与来自大陆（东京）的人所持有的特征的差异。

The aim of this study is to delineate the way that people living in Okinawa who took part in the Tokyo Olympics (1964), National Athletic Meets (in 1973 and 1987), and high school baseball tournaments have constructed their identities as "Okinawan people" and as "Japanese people." It is necessary to consider differences in the characteristics held by those from Okinawa as opposed to those from the mainland (Tokyo) when looking at the complex and multifaceted meaning of the cultural phenomenon of sports.