著者

宮本 勝浩 韓 池 田口 順等

出版者

Japan Society of Sports Industry

雑誌

スポーツ産業学研究 (ISSN:13430688)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.17, no.1, pp.45-56, 2007

被引用文献数

1

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of the Japanese professional baseball industry on the regional economy. In the 21st century, the shift from political centralization to decentralization seems to be promoted, and local governments are expected to bear a large responsibility for the regional economy. On the other hand, many kinds of sports are regarded as encouraging regional economic growth. This paper shows, by input-output analysis, that the Japanese professional baseball industry makes a significant contribution to the regional economy. In this paper, we investigate four issues in the Japanese professional baseball industry and estimate the effect of each on the economy; the strike, new establishment of team, interleague play between the Pacific and the Central leagues, the economic impact of the victory of Hanshin Tigers. First, the economic loss of the strike is estimated at 3.3 billion yen for two days, and 10.3 billion yen for one month. Second, the economic gain of the new establishment of a team in Miyagi Prefecture is about 13.6 billion. Third, the earnings from the interleague play between the Pacific and the Central leagues is about 5.9 billion in total. According to our calculation, the Pacific league will earn 2.8 billion, and the Central league will lose 0.2 billion. Lastly, the economic impact of the victory of Hanshin Tigers team on the Kansai economy is estimated at 148.1 billion yen in 2003, and 64.3 billion yen in 2005. This economic impact of the Hanshin Tigers team on the regional economy is much bigger than that of other teams. Many local governments are eager to attract many kinds of enterprises to encourage economic growth. Nevertheless, we showed that attracting baseball teams and other kinds of sports clubs is also useful to encourage economic growth in the region.

著者

加藤 清孝 葉 聰明

出版者

Japan Society of Sports Industry

雑誌

スポーツ産業学研究 (ISSN:13430688)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.19, no.1, pp.67-73, 2009

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Japan's first professional basketball league, the bj-league, was launched with 6 teams in 2005. The league has expanded its scale since that time. Many organizations in local cities intend to apply to expand franchise opportunities because the operation expense of a bj club is estimated to be 250∼300 million yen annually, which is much lower than that of other major professional sports leagues. However, it is still not easy for the organizations to enter the bj-league. Since the businesses of most local cities in Japan are still suffering from the long economic recession, finding enough investors to cover the expenses is not easy for them. Akita City also faces this situation. Even though an organization in Akita City has prepared to enter the bj-league, it suffers from a lack of investors. It is assumed that to present the economic impact of a bj club to the local business society would be very useful to getting the business society interested in the bj-league. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to estimate the economic impact of the proposed basketball club on Akita Prefecture. According to the results of the input-output analysis, economic impact, including the direct effects and the primary and secondary ripple effects, of the operation expenses of the club and hosting games at the home arena would be 253 million and 172 million yen, respectively. Thus, the total economic impact of the proposed club, was estimated as 425 million yen. The total economic impact will generate income of 170 million yen for companies and individuals, and tax revenues at 5 million yen for local governments in Akita.