The purpose of this study is to explain the progress of the Keirin importation plan in the Ryukyu Islands of a period of U.S. occupation. The subjects of this study are three points of the following. (1) Progress from the Keirin importation plan in the Ryukyu Islands of a period of U.S. occupation a plan to the abolition is researched. (2) Research into the reason why the Keirin importation plan was promoted. (3) Research into the reason why the Keirin importation plan couldn't be enforced The following three matters could be pointed out as a result of the study. (1) Progress from the decision of Keirin importation plan to the abolition reflected the diplomatic relations of Japan and the United States and the international situation such as the beginning of the political change of the East Asian region and the cold war. (2) As for the Keirin importation plan, a Japanese side was cooperating in Naha City and Ryukyu side. The purpose of Naha City was to make up for shortage of finance. A purpose on the Japanese side was to exercise a political influence and an economical influence in the Ryukyu Islands. (3) The development of Keirin importation plan stimulated USCAR (United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands). One of the causes that USCAR dismissed the decision of Naha municipal assembly which ignored public opinion is an inhabitant's Keirin counter movement

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The purpose of this study is to clarify the power relation that exists in so-called "Japanese Sports"-the Features of which are spiritualism and groupism-through exploring the foundation process of the Japan Student Baseball Association (JSBA) and the ideals laid out in the Charter of Student Baseball (Gakusei Yakyu Kensho, CSB) in the postwar era. This paper is organized in the following way. First, I will analyze the idea of BUSHIDO-YAKYU-RON as asserted by TOBITA SUISHU, the father of student baseball, in the postwar era. Second, the foundation process and ideas of the JSBA and CSB is examined. Finally the reasons why these theories that treated sport as a form of moral education spread among Japanese people are analyzed from within their social context. The conclusion of this paper is as follows. 1. The aim of TOBITA's BUSHID-YAKYU-RON was to reconstruct a chaotic Japanese Society through moral education in baseball. The Ministry of Education delegated the supervision of sport to each sport association, but decided that the aim of sport should be moral education. 3. JSBA also recognized the purpose of student baseball as moral education, and legitimated it as CSB. 4. Many Japanese people accepted the aim of sport as the ideal of reconstructing Japanese society and preventing juvenile delinquency. 5. Student baseball as a "Japanese Sport" was (and is) compelled not only from the topdown, but through a social consensus. 6. The ideals of CSB were designed by Japanese, and excluded "foreign" people in Japan.

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