Regional Sports Disaster Reconstruction Assistance

Abstract

    The great East Japan earthquake, which occurred on 11 March, 2011 caused great damage all over Japan.
    In this paper, two Japanese football clubs are discussed to give examples of “assistance to affected areas and sports” . The first, SAGAWA SHIGA FC, is a company team which united to work for earthquake disaster reconstruction assistance and expanded the circle of support together with people’ s activity in the base area. They are an amateur Japanese association football club based in Moriyama, Shiga. They are members of the JFL. The second, SANFRECCE HIROSHIMA, gave reconstruction assistance through a charity match against J1 and J2 teams of the neighborhood and expanded support for activities in sports.