オリンピックの柔道採用をめぐる嘉納治五郎の思想

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Jigoro Kano (1860-1938), the founder of Kodokan Judo, became a member of the International Olympic Committee in 1909 and was instrumental in winning the bid for the 1940 Tokyo Olympics. The 1940 Games were not held due to the war, but in the run-up to the 1964 Tokyo Games, the belief was being formed that Kano wanted to include judo in the Olympic Games. However, the purpose of this research is to verify the hypothesis that Kano had no intention of including judo in the Olympics. The research method was to examine independently obtained audio data and literature that has not been covered so far. As a result, the hypothesis was largely confirmed, and it became clear that Kano believed that judo is different from sport. The reason Kano thought this way was because he had the belief that the purpose of judo was to realize that it had principles that can be applied to all aspects of life (meaning “maximum efficient use of energy”), and that competition was only one means to that end. Kano’s ideas were also understood and accepted by British judo practitioners, among others. After the war, judo became assimilated into sport whose goal was to win in competition, and as a result, it can be said that judo has lost its unique and diverse characteristics.