Playing sports occupies an important place in the life of elementary school children. Community sport clubs can provide children with adequate opportunities to exercise. However, researchers have indicated certain problems faced by such clubs, due to their status of being volunteer associations....

This study examined the means to encourage collaboration strategy with various local community actors through public sports facility management organizations. Such a collaboration strategy is aimed at activities which consist of local contribution activities provided by public sports facility...

The purpose of this study was to examine an improved model of sports coach commitment for teachers of athletic club activities by investigating the relationships between sports coach commitment, sport coach identity, and social support of workers. The participants were 189 middle school and high ...

The purpose of this study was to clarify the subjective feelings of athletes wearing sunglasses while playing sports, using mixed methods research. In Study I, we conducted a free-answered survey, using 50 athletes (M_age=30.6, SD=6.6) to clarify subjective feelings of athletes wearing sunglasses...

The purpose of this study was to build a "Sports Geographic Information Digital Archive," a website which specializes in sports and physical activities in Japan, and to have people utilize the spatial data, statistical data and maps. This archive presents six themes of sport: professional sports,...

This study focused on highly sustainable comprehensive community sports clubs that collaborate with local stakeholders on regional problems, and clarified their processes for producing sports products and developing club management that led to the creation of products that helped solve regional...

The Rugby World Cup (RWC) was held in Japan in 2019 and 1.704 million (37,800 per game) domestic and international rugby fans attended the 45 games. In the RWC 2019, hospitality seats, in addition to normal seats, were sold. Hospitality seats provided hospitality service on top of a game ticket,...

In recent years, sport tourism has been promoted due to its expected contribution to regional revitalization. In Japan, the Rugby World Cup was held in 2019 and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games were held in 2021, attracting attention to spectator-type events, and studies targeting ...