The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of camp experiences on the 19 junior high school refusers, who participated in a seven-day camp at Akkeshi Children's Center conducted in 1998. Their school teachers were asked to report upon the student's school behavior after camp. This report was utilized to make the 5-item checklist of student's behavior in their school lives.The behavior of the students before and after the camp was evaluated in accordance with the 5-item checklist by their teachers. Changes in the subjects were measured with the Self-Concept Scale, the 5-item checklist of students' behavior in their school lives, and the school attendance level. In order to assess subjects' feelings on each activity, the questionnare was filled out before, and immediately after, camp.
The following results were obtained:
1. Statistical differences before and after the camping program were found in 8 items out of Self-Concept Scale consists of 29 items.
2. Positive changes were found in both the teachers' reports and the checklist of students' behavior in their school lives.
3. It is suggested that there were different psychological and behavioral changes, depending on the school attendance level.
4.Cluster Analysis results of the students' questionnaires could be categolized into several groups. The present study illustrated the psychological and behavioral ef5ects that the camping experience had on the junior high school refusers. The end result was that the students. were more inclined to attend public school.

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The purpose of this paper was to make clear state of perfomance of living skills in program activities on eating in organized camp. In this paper, the activities were analyzed by the framework of analysis for living skill learning. The data for this analysis collected in an example of 8-days organized camp for youth in Shizuoka prefecture. The subjects involved 62 youth ranged 10 to 18 years old. The result were as follows, 1) the state if perfomance of skills to prepare was low, 2) the state of perfomance of way of using firewood was fall. The results suggested that the state of perfomance of living skills must be taken into consideration in camp program.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the facts about injuries and diseases during camps for primary and junior high school children, and clarify in what situation children are injured and become sick, and what differences can be found by gender and age.
The survey was conducted for 2, 928 primary and junior high school children who took part in camps lasting longer than 4 nights and 5 days in the summer of 1998.
The summary of the survey outcome is as follows:
1. The boys showed a little higher rate of occurrence of injuries, while the girls showed a higher rate of becoming sick.
2. Among the boys, the longer the experience in participating in camps. the higher the rate of injuries occurrences. In contrast, among the girls, the longer the experience the lower the rate of injuries occurrences.
3. Among the primary school children, the previous experience in staying in a tent did not affect the occurrence rate of diseases. Among junior high school children, the rate of occurrence of diseases was lower among those with previous experience in staying in a tent.
4. Health checkup on the first day of camp proved effective in some aspects to predict occurrences of injury and disease during the camp.
It should be noted that children with stomachache have about twice as many injuries occurrences.

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The purpose of this study is to report a practical study on the walking event “Tokaido 53-stage walking” that is a part of classes in Bunkyo Women' s University, and to clarify the positioning of walking events on the physical education in the university by examining mental changes before and after walking.
“Tokaido 53-stage walking” made a favorable influence of attaining mental satisfaction together with the purposes of keeping good health and improving physical strength. It also brought additional values such as establishing cooperation system among the university, teachers, and students, cultivating the leadership of students in the executive committee.
This event can be considered as a “university event” exceeding from the frame of “classes.” The event is positioned as a part of outdoor education activities that the university and physical education classes are combined to be an “organization” and cooperatively carry out the event.
Year 2001, two years after this, is 400 years memorial of stage system. This event is scheduled to be held for the 3rd time on the year connected with the memorial. The future theme of the event is to periodically hold it by maintaining and arranging the jobs of the event.

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