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SUMMARY:Sports Day | スポーツの日 : 2nd Monday of October Every Year
DESCRIPTION:Sports Day Commemorates the 1964 Tokyo Olympics\nSports day both commemorates the Japanese coming out Olympics of 1964 and is a day to celebrate physical and mental health often with Sports Festivals going on at local elementary and junior high schools.\n    \nShare this Post\nA Sports Day to Remember\nWhen people think of the Summer Olympics, the month of October never comes up because it isn’t in summer. But, because of the rainy and typhoony Japanese summers, October was chosen as the best time to have their Summer Olympics in 1964. There were a lot of calculations for the best day with clear skies according to records and it was found that October 10th year after year just had great weather for open air events. Since the Olympic’s Opening Ceremony would be held in an unroofed stadium and plans had to be solidified a year or two in advance, they chose this day and held their breaths that everything would turn out alright. And it did. The weather in Tokyo was fine and the ceremony was a triumphant celebration of the athletes and a resurgent and more global Japan.\nSports Day Today\nToday Sports Day is held on the second Monday and October and only sometimes incidently falls on October 10th. Though most adults do not go out to enjoy physical exercise on this day, across Japan elementry and junior high school children have their ‘Sports Festivals’. A Sports Festival is a tradition in Japan going back to Meiji times (1860 – 1900) when boys were sized up for physical fitness for military service. Today the martial apect of Sports Festivals has almost gone away, but parents coming to see their child perform against their peers in a series of sports like games and events is widely popular and is community event. Since the inclusion of girls in elementary schools since the 1920s young women also take part.\nHow to Enjoy Sports Day\nSports Day is a time to go outdoors and get some physical exercise. If you teach at an elemenary of juinior high school you might be welcomed or requested to join in at your school’s sports festival. Most schools are open, but going to a Sports Festival as a tourist thing would not be welcomed by the locals and parents of the children involved. Instead, if you are traveling in Japan, many municipal sports facilites such as stadiums, Sports Centers (often with pools), gymnasiums, tennis courts and athletic fields will be open free of charge. Though it is not momiji season just yet, the skies are usually clear and the weather very nice on this day so just enjoying the parks or going for a hike in the countryside are great ways to get some exercise, explore, and enjoy your time in Japan.\n\nReferences\nIn English\nSports Day @ Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_Day_(Japan) )\nIn Japanese\nSports Day Free Things in Bunkyo City Tokyo ( https://www.city.bunkyo.lg.jp/bunka/sports/sports/taikunohi.html )\n\n\nImage thanks to Unknown (Asahi Shinbun) – 
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