Abstract
Physical education has long been kept in a suited place within the realm of education at school in Japan, while the science of physical education, or its research aspects have not been regarded as the full-fledged areas in the academic fields among others. Today, however, the positive health of citizens became a common interest and concern of all, other than those of school populations, and a great amount of professional knowledges and methodologies as well, are expected by lay people on the part of our profession. This report was written basing upon author's concept relative to physical education especially for those young and prospective researchers inclusive of the present major students, so that their all academic energies may be collected to be systematically utilized for the accumulation of the knowledges as to the unsolved problems in our field. The author's definition for the field follows : "Physical education is one of the applied areas of the back-ground sciences called, Gymnastics or Physical-Activity Science, an academic hierarchy consisting of the knowledges accumulated with regards to the effects of physical activities upon human body and mind as well." Our field has been placed fortunately in an authentic status at the Science Council of Japan with other academic areas, and this fact will positively contribute for the furtherance of our field in future, and the young students and researchers should not squander their sport experiences at presnt, and rather utilize them academically by making their experiences as the subjects for their theoretical approaches in order to initiate their research works.
