抄録
Along with the rapid advancement in natural sciences, physical education research in Japan is increasing both in quality and quantity. Physical Education is, in its real character, a unique learning that includes many aspects such as natural science, humanity, social science and art. So we believe it to be necessary, not only to grasp the present situation, but also to pursue the idea in the future, to know how these four areas of stu dy are regarded as important and how they are studied. We have attempted here to analyze the tendencies in Japan, East Germany and America through the comparison of academic publications in our special field. The results attained within our limited materials are as follows: 1) In the area of HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY (HUMANITY), the aim of which seems to pursue values and objectives, America shows least interest among the three countries. And this tendency is getting conspicuous year after year. 2) Each country has been researching PHYSICAL EDUCATION SCIENCES at considerably high level. The rate of this area to all research articles was over 25% in Japan. This was the highest percentage compared with other countries. 3) In America the rate of TEST AND MEASUREMENT to all research articles was more than 40%; this percentage is getting to go higher. Above-mentioned tendency seems to come from a great influential effect of the rapid advancement in natural sciences in 20th century. We do not think this is a favorable tendency. At all therefore, we came to believe firmly that we ought to research in HUMANITY more than in other areas.
