Believe in the Power of SportWe are CHEERING FOR the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics

Tokyo Sports Associationpurpose
The Tokyo Sports Association serves as an umbrella organization for sports in theTokyo Metropolitan Area. Our purpose is to cultivate a rich humanity in people andto develop competitive sports by striving to promote sports and improve the physicalﬁtness and better the health of Tokyo residents.

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The Three C s that We Value!

ChanceWe provide every chance possible to all
Tokyo residents, regardless of their sex orage, to play, watch, and support sports!

C hance

Provide everychance possible

Challenge

We support a wide range of Tokyo residents
in taking on challenges , including everyone
from people in the junior generation to thesenior generation

Cheer On

We cheer on Tokyo residents when it
comes to sports in every way imaginable,
including giving sports-related awards andsupporting Tohoku recovery

C hallenge C heer On

Allow people totake on challenges
at various levels

Cheer on Tokyo
residents when it
comes to sports

Organizational Chart for the Tokyo Sports Association
Board of Trustees
President
Vice President

Board of Directors

Chairman

Secretary General

Tokyo Junior Sports Association

Deputy Secretary General
General Aﬀairs DivisionAﬃliated Organizations
Municipal
School physical culture AssociationSportsSportssports
federations organizations Elementary school Junior high school Senior high school
associations(59 organizations)(41 organizations)(8 organizations)

physical culture
Association* The number of member organizations is current as of April 1, 2014

physical culture
Association

physical culture
AssociationSports Promotion Section

GeneralManager

Lifelong Sports Section
Competitive Sports Section

work
Sending a Tokyo Delegation
to the National Sports Festival
Doing our best to take greater
strides forward!
We send the Team Tokyo delegation to the Kanto BlockTournament of the National Sports Festival and the NationalSports Festival (both the winter and summer tournament aswell as the main tournament).

Tokyo sresults

68th National Sports Festival (Sports Festival Tokyo 2013)
Emperor s Cup (men s/women s combined) First place - 3,486 points
Empress Cup (women s combined) First place - 1,622 points

Strengthening the Athletes
Who Will Represent Tokyo
Aiming for the international stage!
We oﬀer support for activities to strengthen athletes andtheir coaches through sports organizations in Tokyo witha view towards cultivating athletes who can prevail at theNational Sports Festival as well as the global level.

Fostering Junior Afhletes
Discovering new talent who aspire
to become top athletes!
We discover and foster Tokyo-grown junior athletes withtalent who are capable of succeeding at the international
stage, such as at the Olympic Games. We work together
with sports organizations in Tokyo and other entities tosupport everyone seriously striving to become a topathlete!

Talent Identiﬁcation & Development
Rowing, boxing, wrestling, weightlifting, cycling,
canoeing (sprint), archeryYour ﬁrst step towards becomingthe lead player!
We provide support for the holding of beginner s classes,
strength training sessions, tournaments, and other events
that are carried out by our member organizations.

Support for Playing Sports
throughout One s Lifetime
Supporting sports activities
for junior through to Elderly athletes
We promoto the creation of sports environments in whichpeople can richly incorporate sports into their daily lines andenjoy sports.
■ Regional Promotion Program for Fostering junior Athletes (jointly held
together with municipal sport associations)■ Project to Encourage Elderly Sports (jointly held together withmunicipal sports associations)

Junior Sports Association
Aiming for the sound developmentof youths
To encourage youth sports we do not carry out activities
solely for particular sporting events. Rather, we instituteexchange and experience-based activities over a wide rangeof areas that athletes need during their junior stages, such as
outdoor activities as well as cultural and learning activities.
■ Encouraging junior sports club in each ward / city
■ Cultivating and training coaches, leaders, and others■ Promoting exchange activities for junior sports clubs, etc.

Promoting Lifelong Sports
Everyone should enjoy sports
regardless of their age or sex!
We hold sports festival for Tokyo residents in the aim offurther popularizing sports activities throughout people slifetimes.

■ Tokyo sports festival (competition between municipalities)[Summer tournament (2 sports), winter tournament (2 sports), andspring tournament (28 sports)]■ Lifelong Sports festival for Tokyo Residents (17 sports)

Promoting Sports for the Elderly
Aiming to produce representatives
for Nenrin-pic!
We encourage sports for the elderly from the perspectives ofpromoting health and creating meaning in people s lives in asuper-aging society.
■ Senior Health & Sports Festival Tokyo (10 sports)■ Send a Tokyo delegation (roughly 250 people) to the National Healthand Welfare Festival for the Elderly (Nenrin-pic)JASA Oﬃcial Lincense
For everyone that takes partin sports activities
We foster coaches who can coach people in how to playsports safely, properly, and enjoyably by utilizing theirknowledge of sports medicine and science. We also holdtraining sessions in order to raise the attributes of coaches byhaving them acquire the latest knowledge and information.

Supporting Tohoku recovery
through sports
We provide recovery support through sports to the regionsaﬄicted by the Great East Japan Earthquake by inviting
children from these regions to Tokyo in order to restore said
areas to health and build momentum for their reconstruction.
■ Sports Exchange Program■ Invitation Program to Watch Sports■ Invitation Program to the Tokyo Marathon 10K

Support for the Development ofComprehensive Community Sports Clubs
Giving everyone the opportunity
to take part in sports
We oﬀer advice in an integrated fashion on everything fromfounding comprehensive community sports clubs within themetropolitan region to making them self-reliant and on theiractivities. We also oversee new public services through sports
to support the development of clubs that will play a central
role in their communities.

Tokyo Sports Association Awards
Giving sports related awards to cheer
on sports activities● People and organizations that have contributed topromoting or popularizing sports● Junior and senior high school students and others who
have graduated with outstanding records in both athletics
and schoolwork● Individuals and organizations that have achieved
outstanding results at the National Sports Festival1943

Tokyo Sports Committee established1947

1st sports festival for Tokyo Residents
in Commemoration of the Enactment of theConstitution held
Name changed to the Tokyo Sports Association
1949
4th National Sports Festival (Tokyo) held ‒Won Emperor s Cup and Empress Cup(ﬁrst overall victory)

1959

History

14th National Sports Festival (Tokyo)
Won Emperor s Cup and Empress Cup

1963

Tokyo Junior Sports Association established

1964

Tokyo Olympic / Paralympic Games held

1993

57th National Sports Festival (Kochi) held ‒Won Emperor s Cup and Empress Cup

Tokyo Sports Association 50th Anniversary

2002

Start of the Regional Promotion Programfor Fostering Junior Athletes

2006

2007
Bid activities for the 2016 Tokyo
Olympics/Paralympics (2008 ‒ 2009)

Tokyo Marathon started (Joined to the World
Marathon Majors from the seventh marathonin 2013)2008

Start of the Talent Identiﬁcation &Development program for Junior Athletes
Deccision reached on the holding of the 68th
National Sports Festival in Tokyo

2009

2010

Start of the supporting Tohoku recovery
through sports program2011

Bid activities for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics/Paralympic(2012 ‒ 2013)
Decision reached on the holding of the 2020 Olympic /Paralympic Games
68th National Sports Festival (Sports Festival Tokyo 2013) held ‒Won the Emperor s Cup and Empress Cup
Tokyo Sports Association 70th Anniversary

2012

2013

Basic Act on Sports enacted
100-year anniversary of the JASA and JOC

Tokyo Sports Promotion Plan
formulatedTokyo Junior Sports Association 50th Anniversary

Holding of the Tokyo Olympic / Paralympic Games

2020

the organs concerned
Organizations of the sports world
MEXT

Ministry of Education,
Culture, Sports, Scienceand Technology

TMG

Bureau of Tokyo
2020 Olympic andParalympic Games
Preparation, etc.

Tokyo
Junior Sports
AssociationJASA

Japan Sports
AssociationTSA

Tokyo Sports
Association

Municipal sports
associations

JOC

Japanese OlympicCommittee

National sports
Federations

Various organizations(for each sport, etc.)
organized at the nationallevel

Various organizations(sports organizations, etc.)

organized at theprefectural level

Junior sports clubfor each ward/city

Unit of juniorsports clubComprehensive
community
sports clubs

Believe in the powerof sport!
In the Tokyo Sports Association it is our desire
to harness the power that sports possess to theutmost extent to allow as many people aspossible to spend every day in good health.
Within sports there are encounters anddiscoveries to be found, and they give rise toemotions and a power that are impossible toexpress in words. Every day we work on
programs to get as many people as possible toexperience the true appeal of sports bybelieving in the power of sport!

Various sports clubs(Team) Exercise clubs(Junior and senior high schools,
universities, business corporations,public bodies, and privatebodies, etc.)

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NationalGymnasium
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Tokyo Sports Association

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