In recent years sports facilities and tournament venues have become equipped with amenities for people with disabilities. In addition to equipment, however, volunteers are indispensible, especially for the visually impaired and tetraplegic wheelchair users to engage in sports. Therefore in order to promote sports for people with disability, it is essential to foster volunteers with knowledge and experience of sports for people with disability, and to create organizations that support sustained sports activities. In order to do this, it is necessary to understand what volunteers hope for and expect from volunteer activities in relation to sports for people with disability. The purpose of the present study is first to find out the expectations of members of the Council of Sports Coaches for People with Disability, and second, to classify respondents according to their expectations and to investigate the correlation between these expectations and their personal characteristics and desire to engage in volunteer activities. A survey, replicating an earlier study, was carried out, targeting 1050 members of the Council of Sports Coaches for People with Disability in H prefecture during January and February 2000. There were 506 valid responses, representing 48.4% of respondents. The major findings are summarized as follows: 1. There was a strong overall tendency for members to expect to meet and interact with the disabled, as well as with other volunteer associates, and to be eager for self-development. A factor analysis of expectations in relation to activities revealed 5 factors: interaction with associates; social contribution; social benefit; the offer of sports skill& and better use of life. Likewise, a cluster analysis of each factor resulted in classifying the council members into five groups: those who wanted interaction with associates; those who offered sports skills; those who wanted passive participation; those who wanted social contribution; and those who offered disability support. 2. The council members' wishes for volunteer services include caring for the disabled and administering tournaments and club activities, but tournaments have a higher priority. Also within the field of sports coaching, they wanted to act as practice partners more than coaching and refereeing. The survey found that there were a variety of expectations. There has been little consideration given to council members' expectations about the volunteer activities they engage in. This study reveals that the kind of volunteer service they hope for depends on what they expect from those activities. It also suggests the need for systematic and deliberate coordination in the promotion of volunteer activities, such as assigning volunteers by taking into consideration their expectations concerning activities and the kind of volunteer service they hope for.

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In the "Basic Plan for the Promotion of Sports(2001-2010)" announced in September 2000, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology pointed out "an improvement and upgrading of the school sports clubs". One of the policy measures of four items of the plan is "promotion of joint school sports club activities by several schools". This research aimed at clarifying the possibility and the limitation of joint school sports club activities through three case studies: the joint school sports club activities of Itabashi, Tokyo, the combined team of the high school rugby football of Tokyo, and the school cooperation model plan of Kanagawa. In Itabashi, Tokyo, "an implementation guidance for joint school sports club activity" was created prior to the whole country; which clarified correspondence to concerned matters like the lead of advisers of the school sports club, and the responsibility-problem in case of accidents, etc. However, the actual situation was that the club of which activity had stagnated of the shortage of member or in the absence of an adviser, only joined in practice, and the systematic measure was not performed. The measure of a joint team currently taken in the high school rugby football of Tokyo was started in order to put the brake on the decrease in the rugby football population, and to increase to the number of participating teams to competitive events. Since the combination of a joint team was decided for every competitive event by Tokyo high school physical education league, the partner did not become fixed. Therefore it had an aspect which cannot be easily realized as joint team activity. Kanagawa Board of Education specified the "Cooperation model between different kinds of schools" as one of the measures to promote the sports club activities by several schools, and promoted it. The concrete image of the form of activity was presented as a model figure in that case. The concrete image of the form of activity was presented as a model figure in that case. The feature is to organize "the management association" by the adviser of each school, student representatives, the local instructors, etc, and is to fix about an activity day or the method of activity.

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The tendency to establish a comprehensive community sports club shows strongly throughout our country with after publication of "Basic Plan for the Promotion of Sports" (the ministry of education, culture, sports and technology 2000). Although many clubs have various problems, it's operated without effective management and being unable to find out effective solution. And some club managers have an interested in certification of specified nonprofit corporation as the new management method. The purpose of this study is to examine the management in which comprehensive community sports clubs has certificated as specified nonprofit corporation. In this study three community sports clubs are selected to be investigated and interviewed; T sports club, N sports club, F sports club. The main results of this study are as follows: 1. A few management staffs had responsibility for application of the certification as specified nonprofit corporation. There were no objection and problem in certification process. There clubs has operated topdown type management and lots of unconcerned member. And staff has ambiguity idea of future direction and myopia management policy. 2. The comprehensive community sports clubs in which has certificated as specified nonprofit corporation give rise to separate the member who supplies sport service from the member who receives sport service. It is suggested that there is a danger of producing the organization structure which was widely different from the idea of comprehensive community sports club.

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The law concerning PFI (Private Finance Initiative) was enacted three years ago. Since the enactment, the public sports facility which uses PFI for the construction and management has been increasing. The purposes of this study are to clarify the system of PFI and to clarify the essence and effect of PFI for public sports facilities. In this study the two samples, the facility management project for Chowa elementary school and the project for the Hashima public pooi, were elected. Two projects were investigated the system and introductory process of PFI. These prospective views for PFI gave us the difference with the previous public sports facility management (non PFI) in terms of importance of contract, role or function of its organization, kinds or contents of service, cash flow, evaluation of projects. As the result of this study, the public sports facility with PFI management were brought to reduction of cost(about 30%), improvement of sports service and management orientation of official worker. But it is necessary to examined the validity of the evaluation of sports service and domain of public sports service.

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