Acculturation of Japanese ethnic sport in 20th century

本课题旨在探讨日本民族体育在这一个世纪里是如何经历文化适应的。然后选取每年举办一次的民族体育作为地区性民俗活动，作为结果，提炼出文化适应的四个趋势。旅游倾向，即民族体育开始被用来拉动区域经济发展。地方政府倾向于将民族体育取代以往的传统非正式社会团体。简单化倾向。倾向于将非游戏类项目组织成竞争性项目。

The present project aims to consider how the Japanese ethnic sports experienced acculturation for this one century. Then the ethnic sports, which are held annually as the regional folkloristic events, were selected.As the outcomes, following four tendencies of the acculturation were abstracted.1. Tourism tendency, which means that the ethnic sports became to be used to encourage the regional economics.2. Tendency that a local government became to hold the ethnic sports in place of former traditional informal social groups.3. Simplification tendency.4. Tendency to organize the no game-like events into the competitive ones.