Japan’s Sacred Sumo and the Exclusion of Women: The Olympic Male Sumo Wrestler (Part 1)
The 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo offer a fitting and timely point of departure to consider the religion-based exclusion of women and, by extension, to peer into the nation-culture-religion-gender nexus in Japan. The Japan Sumo Association, a quasi-governmental corporation, champions itself as...
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Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2021-09-01
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Series: | Religions |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/9/749 |