Working Hard at Having Fun Through Hobbies and Community
Working Hard at Having Fun Through Hobbies and Community
This chapter follows the working men's lives beyond the workplace, such as weekly volunteer cleaning in Tokyo Bay and marathon club activities. It introduces the vibrant space of the Bayside Half Marathon Club, whose active membership consisted of around fifty to sixty people who met regularly on weekends as well as after work. It also looks at the kinds of issues that arose in the club in terms of Japanese-style, highly managed leadership and provision for members versus laissez-faire-style, self-directed leadership that resonated with the kinds of tensions echoing in corporate hallways across Japan. The chapter explains how a leisure club like Bayside Half is deeply embedded in Japanese society as the social dynamics and ideologies resonate with those found in other leisure spaces and corporate spaces. It addresses the question on whether the highly institutionalized leisure space of a marathon club is a microcosm of corporate Japan.
Keywords: working men, marathon club activities, Bayside Half Marathon Club, leisure club, Japanese society, corporate Japan
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