On 4 April 1905, during the Russo-Japanese War, Abe Isoo (1865–1949), the father of baseball in Japan, Christian intellectual, and professor of economics and political science at Waseda University, took his baseball players to the USA to play against American students and local players in California. Amidst the war and growing anti-Japanese sentiment in California, Abe realized his decade-long dream of participating in international athletic competitions in anticipation of such games contributing to the resolution of international conflicts without weapons. His two primary goals were that his students would experience “systematic scientific” baseball on its home soil and that they would broaden their international perspective. The tour marked the first school excursion sent from Japan for an overseas sporting event and also initiated Japan into the arena of international sporting competitions. This paper focuses on Abe’s view of physical education as seen in his 1905 US tour (4 April–29 June 1905).

1905年4月4日，日俄战争期间，日本棒球之父，基督教知识分子，早稻田大学经济与政治学教授安倍·伊佐（1865–1949）带他的棒球运动员到美国玩针对美国学生和加利福尼亚的当地球员。在战争和加利福尼亚州日益增长的抗日情绪中，安倍晋三实现了参加国际田径比赛长达十年之久的梦想，希望这种比赛有助于解决没有武器的国际冲突。他的两个主要目标是让他的学生在自己的家乡体验“系统的科学”棒球，并拓宽他们的国际视野。这次巡演标志着日本首次派人前往海外参加体育比赛，也使日本进入了国际体育比赛的舞台。本文侧重于安倍晋三在1905年美国之行（1905年4月4日至6月29日）中对体育的看法。