Japan Sports Association

Japanese: 日本体育協会 - にほんたいいくきょうかい(英語表記)Japan Sports Association
Japan Sports Association
Founded in 1911 as the Dai Nippon Taiiku Kyokai (Great Japan Amateur Sports Association) to participate in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, this is a public interest corporation that governs amateur sports in Japan. As of June 2007, 55 domestic sports associations are members, with three associate members, and other members include the Prefectural Athletic Associations, the Japan Sports Association for the Disabled, the Japan Junior High School Athletic Federation, the Japan Sports Arts Association, and the Japan Women's Athletic Federation. Since 1946, it has hosted the National Athletic Meet and played a role in promoting sports. Founded in 1962, the Japan Youth Sports Club has approximately 930,000 members as of 2006. It hosted both the Tokyo and Sapporo Olympic Games, but in 1989 the Japan Olympic Committee became independent (withdrew in 1991), and since then it has been carrying out projects such as training sports instructors, promoting lifelong sports, cultivating comprehensive regional sports clubs, international sports exchange, and sports medicine and science research. Since 2001, it has hosted the Japan Sports Masters, a sports tournament for middle-aged and elderly people (held in Shiga Prefecture in 2007). Its chairman is former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori.

(Yoshio Takahashi, Lecturer at the Nagoya University Center for Health, Physical Education and Sports Sciences / 2008)

Source : "Chiezo" published by Asahi Shimbun Publications Co., Ltd. About Chiezo

Japanese:
1912年のストックホルム五輪に参加するため大日本体育協会として1911年に設立された、日本のアマチュアスポーツを統括する特定公益増進法人。2007年6月現在、国内競技団体55団体が加盟、準加盟に3団体、そのほか都道府県体育協会、日本障害者スポーツ協会、日本中学校体育連盟、日本スポーツ芸術協会、日本女子体育連盟が加盟。1946年から国民体育大会を主催、スポーツ普及の役割を担った。1962年に創設された日本スポーツ少年団には、2006年度現在、約93万人の団員がいる。東京・札幌の両オリンピックを開催したが、1989年に日本オリンピック委員会が独立(91年脱退)、以後、スポーツ指導者の育成、生涯スポーツの振興、総合型地域スポーツクラブの育成、国際スポーツ交流、スポーツ医・科学の研究などの事業を実施している。2001年から中高年のスポーツ大会日本スポーツマスターズ(07年は滋賀県で開催)を主催している。会長は森喜朗元総理大臣。

(高橋義雄 名古屋大学総合保健体育科学センター講師 / 2008年)

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