This study aimed to clarify the expected professional duties and qualities and abilities of Health and Physical Education (HPE) teachers” by school principals. In order to collect the data, research requests were sent to 145 schools in seven prefectures and 126 school principals responded to survey. From previous studies, the current situations of HPE teachers have been considered to be biased towards the club activities instructions and student’s guidance rather than subject teaching, however, results of this study revealed that the expected professional duties of the HPE teachers by the school principals is for subject teaching. Furthermore, results indicated that the recognition of the “development or improvement of the plans of instructions and evaluations” and “interpretation and development of the teaching materials” that can be considered a center core of the subject teaching, have low tendency in the expected qualities and abilities of HPE teachers by school principals.
