Japan

Mitsuru Kurosu ()
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Mitsuru Kurosu: Fukushima University

Chapter Chapter 15 in Comparative Sport Development, 2013, pp 193-210 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Since Western sports and their concepts were first introduced in Japan in the late nineteenth century, sports had served the Japanese in various ways, and it had been regarded as extraordinary activities mainly for fun, pleasure, and relaxation until recently. However, the gigantic earthquake and tsunami, which hit the Pacific coast of Japan’s Tohoku and Kanto regions on the 11th of March 2011, changed that perception. Sports may have more power and could play more important roles in Japanese society than hitherto. Including those new roles, this chapter describes and discusses the sport development in Japan from the following points: (1) brief history of sport in Japan, (2) systems and organizational structures of sport in Japan, (3) finance of sport in Japan, (4) sport policies in Japan, and (5) sport participation in Japan. Based on the information reported in the above sections, the author concludes this chapter with an outlook for a better future of sport in Japan.

Keywords: Sport Activity; Sport Participation; Sport Club; Sport Organization; Sport Facility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-8905-4_15

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