Governor Denny announces his target of hosting the National Sports Festival for its 2034 grand event, “We’re doing our best on our Sports Island Promotion.” (31de22)


Splendor of Okinawa: Monk’s cress, roadside Uruma, 28de22.


On 27 December, Governor Denny Tamaki announced his thoughts on hosting the 88th National Sports Festival in 2034. On the same day, at the Okinawa Prefecture Office, he had received an appeal to host it from Prefectural Sports Board Chairman Michiyuki Tokashiki. The governor responded, “We’ll do our best to work together and moreover get Okinawa promoted as a Sports Island!” 


In 2024, the National Physical Education Festival will be renamed as the National Sports Festival. The governor will also serve as Prefectural Sports Committee chair. Hosting the event will require a vote by the Prefectural Assembly. So, the governor promised, “We’re going to work hard to put this together in order to get it approved at the February Prefectural Assembly Session.”


If the Prefectural Assembly accepts his proposal, the governor will go to Tokyo to make his appeal to the Japan Sports Committee and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology. The governor expressed his intention to work in cooperation with groups concerned with facility arrangements, assessments, player cultivation, and such. 


Board Chairman Tokashiki noted in his appeal, “Rather than the promotion of sports, we want to give dreams, hope, and inspiration to our children who will shoulder the next generation,” and such.


Board Chair Tokashiki also emphasized the significance of hosting the meet. In 1973, a special national athletic meet  called the Young Summer National Athletic Meet was held in the prefecture to commemorate its Reversion to Japan. The first round finals of the Kaiho National Athletic Meet was held in 1987 in Okinawa. If Okinawa hosts the 2034 meet, it is expected to wrap up the crucial second round finals of the National Sports Festival.


Board Chairman Tokashiki and others will also appeal to Prefectural Board of Education Chairman Mitsuru Hanmine. At the beginning of the new year, they will appeal to Prefectural Assembly Speaker Noboru Akamine as well.


Original Japanese article: Okinawa Times, published Tuesday 27 December 2022 at 17:22. Byline: Daisuke Oshiro.

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/e6503f6e8730a027b70edfe99e1a7e413e7b7e90


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Denny Tamaki is the governor of Okinawa Prefecture in Japan. Although Okinawa is important as an international tourist destination and a key element in strategic US Military Forces, its governor receives very little coverage in the Japanese press and almost none in the English language media. 

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