Abstract
The place of memory of the Tokyo Olympics 1964 is not condensed only at the memorial stadiums, gymnasiums, athletic fields and games pitches, as well as news media. The memory is richly accumulated in manga, an influential media for the younger generation that has been steadily developing by means of monthly or weekly juvenile magazines some time before the Games. Manga will tell us what ideologies are emphasized especially for young people. The analysis of Ikki Kajiwara's Kojin no Hoshi (Star of the Giants) and Judo Itchoku-sen (Devotion to Judo) showed the complex ideologies that were swinging between the modernization, innovation symbolized by ‘technical skill’, revival of Japanese fundamentalism, national (Japanese/Korean) identity, gender division, and patriotism. The analysis also reveals the feeling of humiliation, which derived from defeat in the Olympic Judo final match between Geesink and Kaminaga. The humiliation subconsciously denotes both the Japanese spirit to challenge Western superiority and Japanese expectation to eventually overtake it. The analysis also discloses that there is a hybridized mentality between Japanese and Korean hardships in yamato damashii (traditional Japanese spirit).
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