All Directors, including the President of All Japan Taekwondo Association, will resign October 28, 16:45

The association's extraordinary board of directors will be held over the policy of strengthening the “All Japan Taekwondo Association”, etc., and the board of directors will resign and renew the system in the future. Was decided. The time of resignation is after the next new director has been decided.

Background of Taekwondo problem

This issue became apparent in June when a candidate for the Japanese national team submitted a written opinion to the association's board of directors for a review of this year's strengthening plan created by the All-Japan Taekwondo Association. .

Players complained about the representative training camp hosted by the association, saying that “the cost is expensive and there is a coach who has no knowledge or experience, which does not lead to improvement of technology”, and the opinion camp has been held once a month Was required to improve 4 items, such as voluntary participation, and allowing the coach of the affiliated company to be instructed when making adjustments before and after the official tournament.

The players have set the deadline for responses at the end of June, and the association made a proposal in June, but it did not show the responses to the players because it took a long time for the approval process in the association. .

Under these circumstances, the association requested players from the Japanese national team to participate in the training camp, but a number of players turned off due to doubts that the association did not respond, and at the camp last month it was about a week initially. Confusion continued, such as having to shorten the schedule to 4 days.

After that, the association published the answer on the association's website on the 18th of the month, which was significantly behind schedule.

In this answer, before and after the official tournament, we think that it may be considered to make adjustments under the coach of the affiliation, and about voluntary participation in the monthly training camp, We showed that we would make agenda in discussion place.

Furthermore, the association established a forum for discussion on the first day of this month in order to hear the player's opinion directly based on this answer, and at the beginning, Chairman Noboru Kanehara apologized to the player for causing a conflict of opinions with the player. did.

However, the athlete pointed out that the content of the response was not concrete, and distrusted that the association responded that “the athletes were not dissatisfied” in response to a survey from an international sports organization that received this problem. I felt a sense that some players left.

And at the regular board meeting of the association, which was held on the 8th of this month, we decided to replace three staff members, including the chairman of the strengthening committee, who plays a central role in strengthening in a way that accepts some of the players' requests.

On the other hand, the resignation of all directors, including the chairman proposed by some directors, was not treated as an agenda as it was not an agenda item.

The background is long-term lack of trust

It seems that the lack of trust between the association and the players over a long period of time is behind the conflict with the players over the strengthening system and policies of the All Japan Taekwondo Association.

In this issue, there were a series of complaints from the Japanese national class players and other organizations, such as the association's coaching team, and insufficient responses to the players, and two out of 20 in the training camp last month. Only participated.

According to the officials, the situation where players did not gather in the training camp had already started about a year ago.

Athletes are saying that the training camps and competitions held by the association are “the cost is higher than necessary. The self-pay will not be reduced” or “the athlete may pay the coach's travel expenses at the international competition” In addition, there was a voice calling for a reduction of self-pay. “I ca n’t connect. At least I want my coach to accompany me.”

According to the 1992 Barcelona Olympics representative and Miho Takahashi athlete chairman of the association, we have sought improvements in these areas through board meetings, but the situation has not changed.

In June, the athlete submitted an opinion requesting an improvement to the player strengthening policy, and last month, the association compiled its opinion in an answer and presented it to the athlete.

In this, we will consider the association of coaches to training camps and the costs of competitions and training camps are as follows: “JOC is not different from other sports organizations, and JOC is used to subsidize expenses. However, the amount of self-payment for players will increase during training camps, etc., but we are going to verify and make improvements. ”

Furthermore, President Kanehara says that he “listens to the voice of the players sincerely”, but there is a long-standing distrust from the players that the voices of the players have not been reflected. There were also voices that there was no choice but to renovate the current association system.

Regarding this issue, Yoko Okamoto, a bronze medalist at the Sydney Olympics, said, “This is not a problem that has just happened, but it has continued for a long time.” It points out that there is.

On top of that, he said, “Someone has to take responsibility. Dissolving the board is one of the means,” recognizing that the renewal of the association's executives is another option.

Returning public corporation certification

The “All-Japan Taekwondo Association” was established in 2005, but there have been many problems related to organizational management.

At the time of 2013, we were certified as a “Public Interest Incorporated Association”, which is preferentially taxed, but even though there are no provisions in the Articles of Incorporation, the qualifications of some executives were suspended and We received a correction recommendation from the Cabinet Office regarding the suspicion that voting rights were not violated by the General Corporation Law.

The following year, in 2014, the Cabinet Office stated that there was a suspicion that it did not meet the standards for certification of public interest corporations, such as that the compensation of coaches paid from state subsidies was not properly managed. Received a recommendation.

After receiving the recommendation of the second time, the association returned the certification of the public interest corporation as “It is necessary to re-enter as an organization and create a sound system”.
At that time, it was the first time that the certification of a public interest corporation was returned.

Since then, the association has continued to operate as the “Japan Taekwondo Association”, a general incorporated association.

According to the association, the current president, Noboru Kanehara, was still the president at that time, and once retired from the position of president, he was re-established as president.