The Japan Sports Agency's budget for the next fiscal year reached a record high of 35.4 billion yen, including expenses for improving the competitiveness of athletes in preparation for the postponed Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
The Japan Sports Agency's budget plan for the next fiscal year and the third fiscal year of Reiwa increased by 300 million yen from 35.1 billion yen this year to a record high of 35.4 billion yen.
Among them, 10.3 billion yen, which is 200 million yen more than this year's budget, is included as a cost to improve the competitiveness of athletes in preparation for winning medals at the Tokyo tournament postponed to next year and the Beijing tournament next winter. I did.
In addition, in order to balance club activities and school work style reforms, we aim to shift club activities on holidays to regional activities in the future, secure human resources who will provide guidance at model schools nationwide, and protect parents. We have posted 200 million yen as expenses for researching how to bear the expenses.
In addition, in order to utilize the experience of responding to the spread of the new coronavirus, we will collaborate with the Japan Institute of Sports Sciences to study the impact on athletes' competitiveness by follow-up surveys of athletes, and training facilities cannot be used. Even at times, we have included about 480 million yen as the cost of building a method that can be effectively trained.
In the budget of the Japan Sports Agency, 93.6 billion yen has already been included in the supplementary budget for this year, including expenses such as corona measures for the Tokyo Games and 85.7 billion yen.