Work Together, Better Together
JKA Strategy 2032+
A Sustainable Development Strategy for Emerging Korfball Nations
Hajime SHINOHARA, Ph.D.
President, Japan Korfball Association
Efficient strategy of developing Korfball
in a very limited resources
especially in emerging nations
Need to achieve such goals with very limited resources
Current status of Japan Korfball
IKF Country Category
From Category D to C
Develop Junior generations
Recognized by NOC
(Need many prefectures Federations)
No requirement for National rankings
Olympic pledge for Japan
Develop Junior generations
Junior national team
Junior campionship
More actively used Korfs
IKF Country Category : D
Active ~200 members, 1,000 members (including trials)�Budget ~2500 EUR (inc. IKF subscription fee, tax etc, practically almost no budget)
Need to advertise to spread korfball
Players
Management
Top Players
Players
Directors
Voluneers
Members
Discrepancy
Before the strategy
Develop juniors
New prefecture
Better Opportunities
Play opportunities
Own strength
Discrepancy between managements and players
JKA Strategy 2032+
Better Together
Work Together,
Global Policy
Contribution for Korfball
Opportunities for Playing Korfball
If you want to play korfball, you must work for korfball
The more opportunities you want, you need more contribution
Make players contribute to management
Contributor can obtain more opportunities
Discrepancy
Unite the community and create more cooperative culture
Players
Management
Evaluation based on reports on website articles
Members/Clubs works for korfball developments
General people
(outside korfball community)
Allocate opportunities based on “contribution
News articles on Website
(reports)
Reports available on NF website
member/Clubs
NF
Report submission
Participation
Cooperation
https://korfball.jp
Automatic / sustainable develop and advertise system
Automatically commercialize korfball activities
all over Japan!
Contribution Map
What types of activities are evaluated “large contribution”?
Align with current NF goals
Member： conduct trial session increase active member
Generations： elementary school senior uni/college (junior) high school
More Effective
System： in gross/individuals implement as system, club activities
Events： internal only local open for many other members
Status： plan in progress completed
Support： no support sponsor/support from company gov etc
All submitted activities are evaluated based on this contribution map
1,200%+ growth of website contents after this scheme
Number of articles per month submitted by members
Founded “JKA Japan Korfball Award”
Based on report articles Memorial ball will be also awarded
IKF Award | JKA Award | Awarded to |
Excellence in Governance | Best governance for develop korfball | |
Best Grassroots Development | Most effective Grass roots | |
Best Elite Development | Most improved top team | |
Best Event | Best event of Korfball in Japan | |
Innovation | Most innovative activity for Korfball | |
Best Initiative for Cooperation | Best initiative for cooperation for Korfball | |
JKA Original | Best Education | Best activity for junior development |
Aligning to “IKF World Korfball Award”
Japan National Team ：Asagao Japan (Morning Glory)
Q1. Please tell us why you want to play for Japan. What will you do by playing for Japan?
Q2. What you have done and plan to do for developing korfball? �(~100 words in English)
Floriography (Flower words)
Unity
“The team of Better Together,
who create the Future of Japan Korfball Together”
National Team selection
Club slot: Allocate slots for clubs which had valuable contribution
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Individual slot: Individuals who has specific skills / contribution
Not only Korfball skills on the court, but also other skills to develop korfball together
Indoor Korfball 14 slots
Beach Korfball 8 slots
Enthusiasm for Beach / Urban Korfball
Wakana SASAKABE
WBKC2024
CO of 1st Japan Beach Korfball Championship
Shinny Urban Korf kit
Master Degree: Sports Medicine
Handball Trainer experience
Sports Medicine company
Achieve Sponsered
Develop Junior method/coach
Subaru TACHIHANA
Master Degree : Environmental Science
Professional Management skill
Coach for a club in Japan
Create junior korfball class format
AKC2024
Found a new club in a new area
Yuki ANZAI
AKC2024
Moved to rural area found a new club
U21 coach
Participate the beach championship
Prominent Sales
Anna SHIRATORI
AKC2024
Talented sales in multiple domains/asset manager
Instagram +3,000% growth Japan Korfball
“ZAMST challenger” as a Korfball club in Japan
Formerly National level handball /tag rugby player
Spread Korfball young generations, Universities, etc
AKC2024, WBKC2024
Achieved founding
1st official university Korfball athletic club
Organizing junior generation training sessions
Nara University of Education
Ryoshiro TOYODA, Kazumasa HATTORI, �Waka SUZUKI, Sayuki IMANISHI
…And many other talents in Korfball community all across Japan!
AI utilization for efficient management
AI as Secretary
AI as Event Manager
AI as Engineer
AI: Claude 3.5 and Perplexity
Comparison of Time “before” and “after” the AI implement
OfficialLetter
Articles
Translation
Championship
Schedule
PM
Before AI
After AI
Hours
Efficiently managed with AI, Even very limited resources!
Korfball Lab (AI as Engineer)
合 球
Ball
Together
Play, Together,
Work, Together,
Better, Together!
Appendix
Outline