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Until recently, it was believed that Japanese basketball was introduced in 1908 by Hyozo Omori, then director of the PE department of Tokyo YMCA. He went on to be an athletics director of Japan’s first Olympic Games, the 1912 Stockholm Games. Sadly, he was to die six months later, in 1913, of pulmonary tuberculosis, and it fell to Mr FH Brown to po...
Kakiyama’s investigation began when he noticed an early basketball hoop in the background of a 1902 photograph of girls in the schoolyard of Kwassui Girl’s School in Nagasaki. This was curious, however, as it was very different from modern hoops. It was by visiting the Archives Centre of Springfield College and looking at the original Amateur Athle...
The Aoyama Girl’s School was founded in 1895. Harriet Alling was their gymnastics teacher, appointed in 1897. A Japanese PE teacher was hired in January 1904. The school archives have nine references to basketball prior to 1907, indicating that it was established much earlier than the previous belief about the transfer of basketball to Japan. Did H...
Tracking down the origins of this sport has been a ten-year quest for Kakiyama. In 2013 he was awarded a multi-year grant in aid for scientific research. Since then, the grant has involved nearly 5,000,000 yen, and an additional grant from the Society for the History of Physical Education. Kakiyama has travelled to Mariana Young’s alma mater, Ohio ...
Mar 16, 2024 · In December 1891, he invented basketball by hanging two peach baskets at opposite ends of a gymnasium and drafting 13 simple rules. The first game was played by his students, forming the basis for modern basketball.
Jan 19, 2023 · During the Edo Period (1603 – 1867), Hamamatsu was one of several post towns along the Tokaido road connecting the eastern and western regions of Japan, where it flourished as an important transportation hub.
4 days ago · History of basketball, notable events and people in the development of basketball since its invention in the late 1800s. Unlike that of most popular sports, the origin of basketball is concise and all-American—it is the only major sport strictly rooted in the United States.
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Basketball began with its invention in 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts, by Canadian physical education instructor James Naismith as a less injury-prone sport than football. Naismith was a 31-year-old graduate student when he created the indoor sport to keep athletes indoors during the winters. [1]
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Hamamatsu (浜松市, Hamamatsu-shi) is a city located in western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. In September 2023, the city had an estimated population of 780,128 in 340,591 households, [1] making it the prefecture's largest city, with a population density of 500/km 2 (1,300/sq mi) over the total urban area of 1,558.06 km 2 (601.57 sq mi).
