Sports Career Support Consortium
We held the Athlete Career Challenge Conference 2024, a project commissioned by the Japan Sports Agency, “Reiwa 5 Sports Career Support Project”!
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The Sports Career Support Consortium (SCSC)* (Chairman: Yoshio Takahashi) held the Athlete Career Challenge Conference 2024 on Saturday, March 2, 2024 at Trust City Conference Kamiyacho.
This conference was held with the main theme of “Sharing the power of athlete human resources cultivated through competition to society – Initiatives for career development of athletes in central sports organizations, corporate sports, etc.”
In his opening address, Sports Career Support Consortium Chairman Yoshio Takahashi informed the participants about “strengthening and career support.”
Next, Koji Murofushi, Commissioner of the Japan Sports Agency, gave a video message saying that the circle of career support is expanding.
After that, four sessions were held. In session 1, the theme was “Initiatives of central sports organizations regarding athlete career development”, with Mr. Takeshi Matsuda, Chairman of the JOC Athlete Committee/SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS Co., Ltd., and a member of the Japan Gymnastics Association’s Informatics and Medical Science Anti-Doping Committee. Mr. Yasunori Tachibana, head of the Japan Tennis
Association, Mr. Hiromi Nagano, vice-chairman of the Japan Tennis Association Athlete Committee, and Jun Kiyono, director of medical and scientific affairs of the Japan Bobsled Luge and Skeleton
Federation/Kiryu University/JOC High Performance Assistant Director, and others. Discussions were held.
Session 2 was facilitated by Mr. Taisuke Tanuma, Representative Director, Diversity Research Institute, Inc./Specially Appointed Professor, Business Planning Graduate University, and Koichi Asai, Career Consulting Director, Human Resources and Organizational Development Department, Human Resources Department, NTT Communications Corporation. Mr. Katsunori Yamanouchi of the Corporate Sports Promotion and Education Group, Sports Development and Community Contribution Department, Toyota Motor Corporation; Mr. Shigetomo Yamane, General Manager of the Team Development Department of DeNA BayStars Co., Ltd., and former rugby player of NTT Communications Corporation. Mr. Taku Tomoikawa, Mr. Ryutaro Ueda, and others introduced “Examples of initiatives by companies with professional teams and corporate sports.”
In Session 3, there was a cross talk on the theme of “The Potential of Athletes,” and in Session 4, on “Examples of ACC Activities,” participants introduced company cases and talked about ACC’s initiatives.
*The Sports Career Support Consortium was established in February 2017 as part of a project commissioned by the Japan Sports Agency, with the aim of establishing a system to support athletes’ career development. Based on the philosophy of collaboration and common benefit, this consortium brings together organizations, corporations, and
individuals from the sports, education, and business worlds to train coordinators who will actually support the career development of athletes.
[Comment on the day: SCSC Chairman Yoshio Takahashi]
The Paris Olympics and Paralympics will be held this year, and it is expected that many athletes who were not selected for the national team will retire after the games are over.
Athletes who have thought carefully about themselves after retirement from their active days will be able to move on to life after retirement more smoothly, so we will focus our activities on cultivating and changing the awareness of athletes.
As athletes consider their entire careers from active duty as dual-career athletes, the idea that it is important for athletes to consider their entire lives is also becoming more widespread, and that this will lead to stronger athletes.
[Video message comment on the day: Koji Murofushi, Commissioner of the Japan Sports Agency]
Currently, we support career development support initiatives with over 100 related organizations.
The circle of career support for athletes is steadily expanding, with an increase in the membership of central sports organizations and expanded opportunities for career training. We will enhance our initiatives so that athletes can independently think about their careers, demonstrate the skills they have cultivated through competition, and return their value to society.
[SCSC Chairman Yoshio Takahashi]
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