Year of Establishment and Outline
Since its establishment in 1882, Waseda University has supported the field of athletics. It could even be said that Waseda University helped lay the foundation of modern athletics in Japan. At the time of establishment, Shigenobu Okuma, the founder of Waseda University, said, “There is no question that intellectual training, moral education, and athletics, all three, must develop in concert.” From then on, he actively encouraged students to become involved in sports. By producing the first Japanese Olympic gold medalist, and through the nationally anticipated baseball matchup with rival school and athletic powerhouse Keio University, Waseda’s philosophy has contributed greatly to the popularization of athletic competitions among the Japanese people.
Waseda has produced many elite athletes, leaders, teachers, and specialists in sport management. Moreover, based on an approach that scientifically analyzes the capacity to compete at the highest level in athletics. At Waseda, the knowledge, skills, and human network supporting this approach have been an integral part of the organizational structure that has accompanied the tradition of the university since its inception.
In 1964, in response to the demand for a systematic approach to Sport Sciences within the university, Waseda introduced a specialized degree in Sport Sciences in the Department of Education. This took place in the same year that the Olympic Games were held in Tokyo, and marked the start of a high-caliber education program at Waseda University with a student capacity of 160.
Again in 1987, Waseda responded to the need of the hour by increasing the student capacity to 240 at the newly established Tokorozawa Campus, which offered brand new sports and experimental facilities. The program was reorganized, and the Department of Sport Sciences was created within the School of Human Sciences. Soon, the need to develop specialized graduate-level education also became apparent; in response, a graduate program in Human Sciences was established in 1991. It offered research opportunities in Sport Sciences within the Health Science major. At the time of Waseda’s reorganization in 2000, research in Sport Sciences in the graduate school was re-established, and by 2005, research fields in 19 areas had been introduced.
As athletics continued to flourish throughout the world and within Japan, society’s need for diversification, advancement, and specialization in sport was all the more evident. It became apparent that the study of Sport Sciences at Waseda needed to expand and carry on the university’s over 100-year-old tradition in the area of athletics. In an effort to respond to these needs, and in keeping with Waseda’s legacy, the Sport Sciences Department expanded and broke away from the School of Human Sciences in April 2003. In April 2006, the Graduate School of Sport Sciences was established to train scientists and specialized professionals, providing them with cutting-edge research on the science of sport and instilling in them a passion for athletics. Thus, Waseda assumed a new function as the source of research and specialized training in the area of Sport Sciences.

Mission
Sport has become an integral part of people’s daily activities and impacts people’s lives in numerous ways. The areas covered by sport sciences include the various issues of sport, health and science as they relate to daily life: medical evaluation and verification focused on human bodies as they engage in sports, reduction of medical fees, realization of a happy life through health enhancement and long-term care prevention, deep insight into sport as a “culture,” analyses and recommendations regarding the role of the sports business, and the explanation of management techniques that encompass the strengthening and diffusion of sport as well as the opening of markets.
This graduate school was established to comprehensively implement research on the various issues related to sport. Graduate students learn about the most advanced research results related to sport sciences, and not only devote themselves to the seminars of their research guidance programs but also attend the lectures and seminars of various related fields offered at the graduate school. The philosophy behind the establishment of this graduate school is the development of students who will contribute to the “creation of a rich sports culture” through activities in various fields related to sports.

Objectives of the Graduate School of Sport Sciences
In response to the rising social expectations of sport, the aim at the Waseda University Graduate School of Sport Sciences is to develop human resources that succeed as specialized professionals in a wide range of fields related to sports. To achieve this aim, we set the following educational objectives.

1)	Training of Academic Researchers and High-Level Professionals who Utilize Specialized Knowledge in Sports Medicine and Science
2)	Training of Academic Researchers and High-Level Professionals who can Contribute to the Development of Sport Culture
3)	Training of High-Level Professionals who Lead the World of Sport through High-Level Specialized Education for Practicing Professionals in the Sports Business

In order to train such academic researchers and advanced professionals, the Graduate School of Sport Sciences established five research areas: Sports Humanities, Sports Business, Sports Medicine and Science, Exercise and Sport Science, and Coaching Science. The research results of each area are imparted to students through this Schools’ unique system of education. The Graduate School of Sport Sciences has also introduced a Master’s Program (one-year course) for those with practical experience, which offers practicing professionals a cutting edge education in the sports management fields.

Enrollment Model (Major Specialties)
Three programs are available at the Waseda University Graduate School of Sport Sciences: the Two-Year Master’s Program, the Doctoral Program, and the One-Year Master’s Program.
There are five areas in both the Two-Year Master’s Program and the Doctoral Program, and five courses in the One-Year Master’s Program. Content details are given below.

[Two-Year Master’s Program and Doctoral Program]
[Sport Humanities Research Area]
In this research area, sport is understood as a system in which the various elements that belong to the ideal, social, and technological culture of the society in question organically relate to each other. The aim is to solve the problems in sports using the methods of sociology, education, cultural anthropology, ethics, history, philosophy, etc. This research area covers problems ranging from fundamental problems related to the essential understanding of sport to applied problems that appear in daily social life, such as sport media, sport education, sport ethics, gender, and ethnic sport tourism. Sport is studied as a social and cultural phenomena. The aim of this research area is to cultivate human resources that can research these subjects from the perspectives of cultural and social sciences, and professionals who have mastered advanced and wide-ranging specialized knowledge.

[Sports Business Research Area]
This research area covers sport business fields ranging from private commercial sports represented by professional sports and fitness clubs, to public nonprofit sports, such as those organized by governments and schools. It promotes the understanding of the structure of the sport business and investigates methods of resolving management challenges arising from the sport business, using a host of interdisciplinary methods ranging from the micro perspective of working individuals and sports participants to the macro perspective of the relationship between management bodies and macro environments. In addition to the fundamental academic understanding related to sport, this research area aims at the development of professionals and researchers who will have gained the knowledge and skills of business and management and the advanced knowledge and skills related to the sport business.

[Sports Medicine Research Area]
This research area promotes medical research related to sports disabilities, health surveillance, and sports for the disabled. Students will master knowledge related to research as well as gain essential researching abilities. Top-class positions in the field of sports medicine and science are used to promote research activities in this field. The objective is to cultivate athletic trainers, physical therapists, government appointed sports officials, staff members of sports related companies, research educators with advanced research abilities and rich scholarly education, and instructors with advanced knowledge in professional practice. This research area will form partnerships with other sports medicine and science research institutes in and outside of Japan in an effort to ensure that its students succeed in centers for international research.

[Sports Medicine and Sports Science Research Area]
This research area promotes medical research related to sports injuries, health surveillance, and sports for the disabled. Students will master knowledge related to research as well as gain essential researching abilities. Top-class field of sports medicine and sciences are used to promote research activities in this area. The objective is to cultivate athletic trainers, physical therapists, government appointed sports officials, staff members of sports related companies, research educators with advanced research abilities and rich scholarly education, and instructors with advanced knowledge in professional practice. This research area will form partnerships with other sports medicine and science research institutes in and outside of Japan in an effort to ensure that its students succeed in centers for international research.

[Exercise and Sports Science Research Area]
In this research area, research that can lead to health promotion and the improvement of sports performance is propelled from a fundamental scientific standpoint. The objective is to cultivate researchers and related-professionals who possess advanced research abilities in the area of the basic sport sciences and rich scholarly education, and faculty members, sports instructors, government appointed sports officials, staff members of companies in the field of sports, etc., with advanced knowledge and skills related to sport sciences and physical education. We will also build close partnerships with other research institutes and aim to enhance research and education.

[Coaching Science Research Area]
In this research area, “coaching” in modern society is understood scientifically and technically in the fields of sports and education. This research area investigates the phenomenon of coaching for competitive events through deepened specialized understanding, and uses interdisciplinary methods to investigate the relationship between technology acquisition and environment building with respect to the introduction and development of coaching for sports participants. This research area explores the basis and process for the performance of top-class athletes and other competitors, and constructs principles for efficiently improving performance. The aim is to use practical research and education to produce competitors with strong theoretical knowledge and to cultivate advanced sports practitioners, instructors, and researchers with the skills to instruct those competitors.

[One-Year Master’s Program]
[Top Sports Management Course]
Offered to those who possess practical experience in the sports business and general companies, the objective of this course is to train the human resources in demand in the world of top sports by developing their practical skills and management abilities needed in the professional sports business centered on sports services and sporting goods. This course attempts to develop practical and logical research abilities related to top sports businesses, explain the various problems related to top sports businesses through advanced education and research, and cultivate practical and specialized abilities that can be used to contribute to the development of top sports businesses.

[Sports Clubs Management Course]
For those with practical experience in community sports clubs, private sports clubs, sports administration, sports groups, etc., the objective of this course is to train the human resources in demand in community sports club businesses, public sports facilities management, etc., by developing their practical skills and management abilities needed for community sports businesses centered on sports services. This course attempts to develop practical and logical research abilities related to community sports businesses, explain the various problems related to community sports businesses through advanced education and research, and cultivate practical and specialized skills that can be used to contribute to the development of community sports businesses.

[Management of Health and Sports Promotion]
For those with practical experience in health enhancement, the objective of this course is to train the human resources in demand in society by developing their practical skills and management abilities needed for health promotion centered on exercise and sports. Students learn a wide range of fundamental knowledge related to health promotion, and once having understood the practical instruction techniques through sports and physical exercise and training as well as the theoretical basis for these techniques, they will develop practical and specialized skills for the management of health promotion in regional government or health-related organizations.

[Management of Long-Term Care Prevention Course]
For those with practical experience in health enhancement or long-term care, the objective of this course is to train the human resources in demand in society by developing their practical skills and management abilities needed for long-term care prevention activities. Students are assured a wide range of fundamental knowledge related to long-term care prevention, and once having understood the practical instruction methods for restraining the progression of frailty in those acknowledged to be in need of long-term care and those frail elderly persons acknowledged to be independent as well as the theoretical basis for those methods, they will develop the practical and specialized skills needed for the management of long-term care prevention in regional government or long-term care-related organizations.

[Management of School Physical Education Course]
For those with teaching experience, etc., this course was established with the objective of improving the practical educational abilities necessary for health and physical education faculty members by having them learn the theories and practices regarding the pedagogy of physical education. This course is based on the latest research results in sports, physical education, and the various health sciences; the integration of each of these areas of science is attempted, and the content of the physical education is strengthened. This course attempts the development of practical educational abilities and logical research abilities related to school physical education, explain the various problems related to school physical education through advanced education and research, and cultivate instructional and specialized skills that can be used to contribute to the development of health and physical education.

Master’s Degree and Doctoral Degree

Master’s Program (One-Year and Two-Year)	:	Master of Science
Doctoral Program	:	Doctor of Sport Sciences