In the early Meiji Period, When Japan set out on the road to the modernization, all of the nation\u27s culture and educational leaders considered nation building and character building to be one and the same thing as a like Europe and America. In the educational Act of 1872-called "Gakusei," public school were established throught Japan. The process of the modernization of education in Japan may be traced both through the process of the organization of elementary school and through the westernization of the curricula, teaching method, etc. of the schools. Just at this time the school physical Education in Japan had begun. The object of this report (I) is to make analysis the process of the establishment of the modern school physical Educati...