Promotion of Group Gymnastics for Improving National Physical Fitness and Cultivating National Spirit during the Fifteen Years War

• Project/Area Number: 22700635
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Sports science
• Research Institution: Ryukoku University
• Principal Investigator: SASAKI Hiroo 龍谷大学, 文学部, 講師 (80434348)
• Project Period (FY): 2010 – 2011
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2011)
• Budget Amount: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2010: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
• Keywords: 体操 / 国民体育 / 15年戦争

Research Abstract

The purpose of this study is to clarify how and why government promoted gymnastics for developing national health, national spirit, and national discipline from the 1930's to 1945 in Japan. Through this project, I tried to show the gymnastics that produced in that term exhaustively, and discussed about the cases of gymnastics promotion for factory workers, farmers, and students that connected social discourse and national policy for the conduct of the war.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 昭和初期の工場体操普及について:産業衛生協議会答申と内務省社会局の取り組み (2011)
  • Author(s): 佐々木浩雄
  • Journal Title: 龍谷紀要 Volume: 33(1) Pages: 121-137
  • NAID: 110008738872
• [Presentation] 昭和初期の工場体操について (2011)
  • Author(s): 佐々木浩雄
  • Organizer: 日本体育学会体育史専門分科会
  • Place of Presentation: 石川県文教会館
  • Year and Date: 2011-05-14
• [Book] 太平洋戦争下の国民体育と体操:東京帝国大学における鍛錬部の設置と『全学鍛錬体操』の実施 (2012)
  • Author(s): 佐々木浩雄
  • Publisher: 渓水社
• [Book] 体育・スポーツ史の世界大地と人と歴史との対話(楠戸一彦先生退職記念論集) (2012)
  • Author(s): 楠戸一彦先生退職記念論集刊行会編
  • Publisher: 渓水社
• [Remarks] (1)研究発表:佐々木浩雄「『体操の時代』:十五年戦争下の国民体育と集団体操」(早稲田大学東伏見スポーツサイエンス研究会、2012年1月24日、早稲田大学)
• [Remarks] (2)研究発表: SASAKI, Hiroo "Changes in Body and Health Values along with Modernization of Japan" Japanese Reflections on the History of Sport, Organized by the International Centre for Sport History and Culture, De Montfort University, Leicester(イギリスDe Montfo大学主催の日英学術交流シンポジウムでの報告、2010年9月8日、De Montfort University, Leicester)