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The Center & International Network
The Sport Science Center for Active Life (SSCAL) was established to be the nucleus for education and research activities. As part of efforts to forge an international network of sport sciences, an affiliation between Waseda University and German Sport University Cologne will be established; these will be international centers of the network. A system will be created for the regular exchange of researchers and dispatch/acceptance of young researchers between the two centers. These plans have already been implemented. Other affiliations will be soon formed with Seoul National University, Shanghai University of Sport, Tsinghua University, and the University of Calgary. We have already formed academic exchange agreements with these universities.
We will implement a program to send outstanding graduate students overseas to enhance research abroad. At the same time, researchers will be invited from affiliated universities for long-term stays to conduct substantive research and high-quality education. The outcome of the GCOE program will be publicized at two annual meetings, the Sport Science International Forum and the International Sport Science Symposium for Active Life (ISSSAL), scheduled for mid-year and end-of-year respectively.
Representative Ongoing Research Project
«The biomechanical analysis of elite athletes»
The figures at the right show abdominal cross-sections of a world-record holding sprinter and a top Japanese sprinter respectively, taken in a laboratory. The greater psoas muscle (shaded area, the muscle that lifts the lower limb) of the world-record holder is 'extremely' developed compared to that of the Japanese runner. Based on this and other data, Japanese sprinters trained muscles that were previously ignored, and the 400m relay team won a bronze medal at the Beijing Olympics.
Representative Research Publications
- Nakamura M, Yoda T, Yasuhara S, Saito Y, Kasuga M, Nagashima K, Crawshaw LI, Kanosue K: The regional differences in temperature sensation and thermal comfort/discomfort in humans. J Appl Physiol 105: 1897-1906, 2008.
- Higashida K, Higuchi M, Terada S: Potential role of lipin-1 in exercise-induced mitochondrial biogenesis. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 374: 587-91, 2008.
- Kawakami Y, Kanehisa H, Fukunaga T: The relationship between passive ankle plantar flexion joint torque and gastrocnemius muscle and Achilles tendon stiffness: implications for flexibility. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther 38: 269-275, 2008.
- Ohkawara K, Tanaka S, Ishikawa-Takata K, Tabata I: Twenty-four-hour analysis of elevated energy expenditure after physical activity in a metabolic chamber: models of daily total energy expenditure. Am J Clin Nutr 87: 1268-1276, 2008.
- Scott RA, Fuku N, Onywera VO, Boit M, Wilson RH, Tanaka M, Goodwin WH, Pitsiladis YP: Mitochondrial haplogroups associated with elite Kenyan athlete status. Med Sci Sports Exerc 41: 123-128, 2009.
- Sumino M, Harada M: Affective experience of J. League fans: the relationship between affective experience, team loyalty and intention to attend. Managing Leisure 9: 181-192, 2005.
- Ota A, Thompson, M, Nakamura Y: The effect of perceived satisfaction with care-prevention exercise programs on their continuation of the programs. Int J Sport Health Sci 6: 54-59, 2008.
- Peake J, Abbiss C, Peiffer J, Nosaka K, Okutsu M, Suzuki K: Body temperature and its effect on leukocyte mobilization, cytokines and markers of neutrophil activation during and after exercise. Eur J Appl Physiol 102: 391-401, 2008.
