This study adopts the research method of sports anthropology to reveal the formation process of Yang Mingshi Tai Chi in Japan, one of the physical activities that integrates Japanese and Chinese culture.

The research results bear out that based on the idea of politician Furui Yoshimi (who viewed Tai Chi as a bridge of friendship between Japan and China). Furui Yoshimi’s collaborator Yang Mingshi founded on Japanese culture like Japanese martial arts which attach importance to proprieties, Yang Mingshi integrated health-preservation-oriented Tai Chi with The Baduanjin qigong, and received support from Furui Yoshimi, thus creating the “Yang Mingshi Tai Chi” which is an emblem of Japan-China friendship. In other words, Yang Mingshi referred to Japan’s physical and mental culture and excavated China’s inherent physical and mental culture, which is regarded as a combination of guiding or qigong, quanshu skills (or the combination of consciousness, breathing, and movement), thus creating Yang Mingshi Tai Chi featured by Japanese martial arts.

Hence, Yang Mingshi Tai Chi has been recognized by representatives from all walks of life in Japan, and while different from Furui’s Tai Chi, it will also lay the foundation for the popularization of Tai Chi (simplified Tai Chi) in Japan.