{"id":355,"date":"2016-03-25T22:26:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T13:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judojiko.net\/eng\/?p=355"},"modified":"2016-03-26T15:55:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T06:55:07","slug":"after-school-sport-clubs-2-days-off-is-only-in-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judojiko.net\/eng\/news\/355.html","title":{"rendered":"After-school sport clubs \u2013 2 days off is only in name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Century; font-size: small;\">School sport clubs should have more than 2 days off per week<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Century; font-size: small;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u30fb<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Century; font-size: small;\">more than 2 days off per week in junior high schools<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Century; font-size: small;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u30fb<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Century; font-size: small;\">more than 1 day off per week in high schools<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Century; font-size: small;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u30fb<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Century; font-size: small;\">longer holidays during school vacations<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Century; font-size: small;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u30fb<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Century; font-size: small;\">up to 2-3 hours of activity on weekdays, 3-4 hours on weekends<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: Century; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Century; font-size: small;\">The above describes the proper amount of after school sport club activities in junior high schools and high schools, indicated in the report written by the Ministry of Education a number of years ago. More than 2 days of rest in junior high schools and more than 1 day of rest in high schools are required. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Century; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Century; font-size: small;\">QOL of students was emphasized<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Century; font-size: small;\">The above guideline was announced in 1997 in the \u201cSurvey research report of the school sport club activities\u201d by the Ministry of Education. The guideline has never been retracted, rather they have been referred to by a number of school boards for developing guidelines of their club activities.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Century; font-size: small;\">The report by the Ministry discussed the common idea shared by many at the time that school sport clubs which practiced as many days as possible were regarded as \u201cgreat active clubs\u201d. The report clearly stated that \u201cIf we consider sports injuries, burning students out, work-life balance of students and guarantee of their development, excessive activity is detrimental. An appropriate number of days for rest must be assured.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Century; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: Century; font-size: small;\">The reality is contrary to the guideline<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Century; font-size: small;\">Why do school boards refer to the guideline of 20 years ago? It is because it has not been realized yet, or the situation is even worse today.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Century; font-size: small;\">The national survey shows that in many schools club activities are conducted longer than 3 hours per day and more than 6 days a week, and the percentage of schools in this category increased in 2009 compared to 2004. The number of days per week and the hours per day have increased, running counter to the restriction guidance of the Ministry of Education in 1997. The guideline is not followed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Century; font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/judojiko.net\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/After-school-sport-fig2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-368\" title=\"After-school sport fig2\" src=\"http:\/\/judojiko.net\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/After-school-sport-fig2-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"No. of hours of club activities per day\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/judojiko.net\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/After-school-sport-fig2-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/judojiko.net\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/After-school-sport-fig2.jpg 906w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/judojiko.net\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/After-school-sport-fig1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-367\" title=\"After-school sport fig1\" src=\"http:\/\/judojiko.net\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/After-school-sport-fig1-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"No. of days of club activities per week\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/judojiko.net\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/After-school-sport-fig1-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/judojiko.net\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/After-school-sport-fig1.jpg 906w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Century;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">*The author drew the graphs based on the 1<\/span><sup><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">st<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> and 2<\/span><sup><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">nd<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em>Basic Survey of Children\u2019s Life <\/em>by Benesse<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Century; font-size: small;\">An example of 3 days off per week<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Century; font-size: small;\">Yusuke Fujino is a junior high school teacher who practices \u201crelaxed club activities\u201d. According to his blog entitled \u201cFire the spirit of students\u201d, the soft ball club he is in charge of is \u201coff on Tuesdays + most of Saturdays and Sundays\u201d. The students are happy about the schedule. The club is off for about three days every week, but the club has a <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Century; font-size: small;\">high ranking in the prefectural tournament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Century; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Century; font-size: small;\">An increase of holidays does not guarantee victory, and perhaps there is no need to aim for victory. The step taken by Mr. Fujino shows us that there is a way to manage a sport club other than practicing every day without rest. This point has been indicated in the guideline presented by the government 20 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Century; font-size: small;\">10.01.2016<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/bylines.news.yahoo.co.jp\/ryouchida\/20160110-00053274\/\" href=\"http:\/\/bylines.news.yahoo.co.jp\/ryouchida\/20160110-00053274\/\">http:\/\/bylines.news.yahoo.co.jp\/ryouchida\/20160110-00053274\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School sport clubs should have more than 2 days off per week \u00a0 \u30fbmore than 2 days off per week in junior high s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judojiko.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judojiko.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judojiko.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judojiko.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judojiko.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/judojiko.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/judojiko.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judojiko.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judojiko.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judojiko.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}