Japan Society for the Promotion of Science:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Date (from‐to) : 2015/04 -2019/03
Author : TAHARA Junko; SCHANTZ Otto; HATANO Keigo
This research examined the process of how Japan and Germany returned to the international sport community and successfully participated again in the Olympic Games after World War II. For Japan, the United States had significant influence in propelling Japanese sport federations to rejoin international sport federations and also in the process of the Japanese Olympic Committee being accepted by the IOC. A Japanese Diet member group interested in sport was important for securing support from the government to participate in international sport events. In Germany, however, the German Sport Federation, which was established independent of the NOC, was prominent in the revival of the German Olympic Committee and participating in international sport events again, including the Olympic Games, demonstrating the German sport arena’s autonomy.