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The JOC 2016 The 6 JOC JOC ACTIVITIES CONTACT JAPANESE OLYMPIC COMMITTEE Address : KISHI MEMORIAL HALL 1-1-1 JINNAN, SHIBUYA-KU TOKYO 150-8050, JAPAN Tel : +81-3-3481-2233 Fax : +89-3-3481-0977 URL : http://www.joc.or.jp/english/ Photo by Ao Sport, AP/Ao, Reuters/Ao, PHOTO KISHIMOTO Japanese Olympic Committee 03 Message from JOC President Tsunekazu Takeda 04 History of the JOC 05 Performance-Enhancement Programs 14 Olympic Movement Programs 21 Games Participation Programs 27 Marketing and Other Programs 31 List of JOC Executives 32 Afliated National Federations 34 Summary of Financial Results 36 Compliance and Governance CONTENTS Project Performance-Enhancement Olympic Movement Programs 01 Programs 02 The participation of Japanese athletes in major The Olympic Movement is a peace movement international sports competitions, including the that promotes the noble Olympic ideals Olympic Games, inspires and brings happiness to (Olympism) to increase mutual understanding many people. In addition, this participation raises the through friendship, solidarity, and the spirit of level of interest in sports among the public, and fair play based on the Olympic Charter. The contributes greatly to popularising and promoting JOC holds a variety of events and actively Mission sports in Japan. In order to sustain the development disseminates information throughout the year of elite-level competitors able to participate in such to promote and educate people about the The JOC’s mission lies in urging all events, the JOC from time to time evaluates and Olympic Movement. people to participate in sports, cultivating improves the enhancement strategy plans proposed athletes with sound minds and bodies, by afliated national federations, and takes active and strongly promoting the Olympic measures to develop not only athletes but also Movement. Using the Olympic Games coaches and other related personnel. to allow humankind to ourish, to elevate culture, and to keep the ame of world peace alight forevermore is precisely the mission of the JOC. 03 Games Participation Programs 04 Marketing and Other Programs Objectives Activities Participation multi-sports competitions promotes In order to secure the funds necessary to carry out its mutual understanding that transcends borders Programs, the JOC conducts marketing operations As a National Olympic Committee The JOC identies the following three and ethnicities, and also makes a signicant such as sponsorship and licensing activities by (NOC) constituted in accordance with activities as its major policies: sending contribution to world peace. Based on the managing intellectual property rights and granting the Olympic Charter and the ideals of athletes to the Olympic Games and organisational policies created for each event, licenses to use those rights. The JOC also conducts Olympism, the JOC aims to contribute to other international competitions; the JOC selects and sends teams deemed other projects necessary for its core Programs to the promotion of sport by supporting operating events, services to promote appropriate to represent Japan to international including support activities for the recovery of the Olympic Movement, which serves the Olympic Movement, and operating sports competitions, including the Olympic the areas affected by the 2011 earthquake and the cause of preserving world peace various activities developing and Games, and undertakes activities that support tsunami, and gathering information from around and developing international goodwill strengthening athletes. the teams on-site. the world through partnership agreements with through sport, and by developing and overseas NOCs and by other means. strengthening athletes in Japan. Photo by THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN / Ao 01 The JOC 2014 - 2015 The JOC 2014 - 2015 02 TMessagesun efromka JOCzu President Tak Tsunekazueda Takeda At the IOC Session held in December 2014 in Monaco, 20+20 strategic recommendations concerning the future of the Olympic Movement were presented in the form of the Olympic Agenda 2020. The overriding objective of History of the JOC the Agenda was to promote signicant reforms in the following ve key areas with the a particular focus on sustainability, youth, and credibility: the unique nature of the Olympic Games; athletes at the center of the Olympic Movement; Japan’s involvement in the Olympic Movement began day-to-day development of Olympism; the role of the IOC; and the when Jigoro Kano was appointed the rst Japanese IOC organisational structure of the IOC. member in 1909. At the JOC, we launched a new project entitled the JOC Future Planning Kano established the Japan Amateur Sports Association, Project to respond to the international initiatives being undertaken by the IOC Japan’s rst sports oversight body with national Olympic and examine the future direction of the JOC. The JOC will work in close committee (NOC) functions, in July 1911 to realise his collaboration with the Japan Sports Agency, the Japan Sport Council, the Japan Amateur Sports Association, national federations and other sports passionate ideas concerning the promotion of sports organisations while maintaining its independence as an NOC and rebuilding its and to support participation by Japanese athletes in the organisational structure and nancial foundations. fth Olympic Games held in Stockholm in 1912. Based There are only four years until the Tokyo 2020. We will continue to enhance the on his intention to promote sports among the general international competitiveness of Japanese athletes and lay solid foundations public, Kano believed that it was necessary to produce so that the athletes are able to inspire people throughout Japan. We will also many outstanding athletes to promote the Olympic work hard to promote the further development of the Olympic Movement and Movement and encourage physical education among world peace based on the Olympic values of friendship, excellence, and respect. the people. It is our duty to exert our utmost efforts towards creating a sustainable and As the sole NOC in Japan pursuant to the Olympic peaceful society, the objective of Olympism, and strive to ensure that the Tokyo Charter, the JOC has worked to promote and educate 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games are held in line with the values and spirit people about the Olympic Movement and enhance of the Olympic Movement. international competitiveness. It has also sent Japanese I would like all persons associated with the JOC, including the newly elected teams to international multi-sports competitions Executive Board Members and Auditors, to work together and combine their efforts towards building the foundations of the Olympic spirit in Japan so that including the Olympic Games and works constantly to we can realise the ideals and objectives of the JOC. contribute to the promotion of sports and to society in I look forward to your continued understanding and support for the JOC’s Japan and in other countries through the Olympic activities. Movement. The JOC has formed a more than 100-year history since its foundation and is now taking the rst JOC Eleven Programme Categories for 2015 and 2016 steps towards the next 100 years. The JOC has successfully held three Olympic Games — 1. Creation of athlete performance-enhancement Programs for success at the Summer Games in Tokyo in 1964 and the Winter the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games Games in Sapporo in 1972 and Nagano in 1998 — and 2. Formulation of the direction to be pursued by the JOC in light of the Olympic Agenda 2020 achieved signicant results in both international 3. Operation and enhancement of the independence, transparency, competitive capabilities and in promoting the Olympic fairness, and equity of the National Federation Support Center Movement. The JOC is now making preparations for the 4. Elimination of violent conduct in the sporting world Tokyo 2020, and to working to achieve further 5. Promotion of the Olympic Movement: Continued measures for Olympic development of the Olympic Movement. education, dissemination of related information, including the creation of an Olympic Museum, and continued activities to support the recovery In 1989 the Japanese Olympic Committee became from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami independent from the Japan Amateur Sports Association 6. Promotion of international exchanges, and development of sports and, as Japan’s sole Olympic committee, the JOC now diplomacy capabilities and human resources has the social mission of enhancing the international 7. Development of second careers for athletes 8. Anti-doping activities competitiveness of Japanese athletes, and promoting 9. Promotion of sports and environmental activities and educating people about the Olympic Movement. 10. Development of environments for the development of athletes through Entourage Commission and other activities 11. Programs to protect the values and integrity of sport 03 The JOC 2014 - 2015 The JOC 2014 - 2015 04 0021 Performance-Enhancement Programs Performance-Enhancement Programs Coaching Enhancement Programs 01 Appointment of National 2015 JOC Coach Conference Coaches and Others 【Second Conference】 The JOC appointed national coaches and assistant coaches in order to improve results at the Rio Olympic Games, and expanded performance-enhancements programs for athletes within various sports organisations. Number of appointments in 2014 National coaches: 18 coaches in 18 sports Assistant coaches: 19 coaches in 15 sports The slogan of the JOC Sports Committee is No integrity, no victory. ~ Without outstanding human resources,
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