The purpose of this paper is to show, through a case study, why and how the UNIVAS, Japan Association for University Athletics and Sport, was established. UNIVAS was established in Japan in March, 2019. It inclusively supervises a variety of university sports club activities nationwide.
In this paper, the author analyzes the policy formation of the UNIVAS establishment based on the new policy window approach. As a result of this analysis, seven interesting facts, supported by both a theory and a proof, have been discovered, five of which are summarized as follows.
1. Government officials, Diet members and Japanese citizens were all involved in multiple policy formation processes at multiple levels in a multi-layered way.
2. Multiple problems in agenda were sufficiently selected and mutually related.
3. With the progress of the policy formation, new policy proposals were added and refined.
4. Policy formation processes became available as problem windows and political windows were both opened
5. Actual policies were realized when the agenda, the lists of policy proposals and political events formed the complete package.
