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We do note sports day at Japanese schools. They are important school events and also important social events in the local community. The schools have various ways of promoting the events. The sports days themselves appear to include a variety competitive ahd non-competivie events. Non-competive events include well-staged mass gymnastic demonstrations. We assume there are also competitive track and field events as are common at American and British schools. There are also some uniquely Japanese feattures. Undo Kai or Sports Day is in fact a major event at most Japanese schools. Many parents come to watch their children on Sports Day. It is perhaps the most intesively photographed school event in Japan. It is not a single day, but rather varies from school to school. Some schools have more than one Undo Kat each year. The kids are of course the center if attention, but it is actually more of a community event than school event because so many parents and even neighborhood residents witghout kids attend. The school essentially closes down for the day. An effort is made to involve as many of the children as possible, The activities for the younger children focus on participation. Competition becomes more important for the older children.
We note sports days at Japanese schools. As far as we know, all schools stage sports days. They are important school events and also important social events in the local community. Thus the schools want the comminity to know about them. Presumably the children tell their parents. But the school also want to get get out the word to the community at large. The schools have various ways of promoting the events. The kids are of course the center if attention, but it is actually more of a community event than school event because so many parents and even neighborhood residents witghout kids attend.
Undo Kai or Sports Day is in fact a major event at most Japanese schools. Many parents come to watch their children on Sports Day. It is perhaps the most intesively photographed school event in Japan.
It is not a single day, but rather varies from school to school. Some schools have more than one Undo Kat each year. The school essentially closes down for the day. An effort is made to involve as many of the children as possible, The activities for the younger children focus on participation. Competition becomes more important for the older children.
The sports days themselves appear to include a variety competitive ahd non-competivie events. Non-competive events include well-staged mass gymnastic demonstrations. We assume there are also competitive track and field events as are common at American and British schools.
There are also some uniquely Japanese features. The emphasis on non-competive activities is one feature that differentiates Japanese sports days from American and British sports days. Therecare other features. We are not sure precisely what is happening here (figure 1). We wonder if the children have some sort of Shinto shrine here or just what they are carrying.
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