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In Seeing Stars, Dennis J. Frost traces the emergence and evolution of sports celebrity in Japan from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries. Frost explores how various constituencies have repeatedly molded and deployed representations of individual athletes, revealing that sports stars are socially constructed phenomena.

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    A Hardback by Dennis J. Frost

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      Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
      Publication Date: 07/02/2011
      ISBN13: 9780674056107, 978-0674056107
      ISBN10: 0674056108

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      Book Synopsis
      In Seeing Stars, Dennis J. Frost traces the emergence and evolution of sports celebrity in Japan from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries. Frost explores how various constituencies have repeatedly molded and deployed representations of individual athletes, revealing that sports stars are socially constructed phenomena.

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