<p><i>More Than Medals</i> is an excellent and well-researched book which will speak to many readers, and which breaks ground in the study of disability sports - not solely in Japan or Asia, but in general!</p>

The International Journal of the History of Sport

<p>The author provides excellent background on the organization of sporting associations. Employing diverse sources ranging from personal narratives to mass media accounts and institutional materials, Frost shows that disability sports have offered a prominent, though until now undertheorized, arena in which postwar Japan has interrogated and challenged notions of disability, national pride, and athletic excellence.</p>

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<p>Dennis J Frost's<i> More Than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan</i> is a very comprehensive historiography of this topic, applying the author's careful review of Japanese primary sources, including literature and interviews. Foreign-language speakers of any language have difficulty accessing the references in the field, as I have experienced as a native speaker of Japanese and with English as a foreign language. Thus, I think Frost has done an excellent job with this historical study. Overall, this book has outstanding analyses of disability sports in Japan. I encourage my colleagues in disability studies, both in Japan and outside the country, to read this work.</p>

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