About the BAMIS (Body and Mind Integrated Science) project

Decline in physical and mental vitality has been recognized in people, especially younger generations, in Japan. This is a major issue for Japanese, since such declines in physical and mental vitality will not only cause declines in mental and physical health, but also in national capacity.

The Body And Mind Integrated Science project (BAMIS) began in June 2010, when our research proposal, entitled “Sports Science Innovation for the Development of Tough Body and Mind: Introduction of Cognitive Neuroscience”, to The Ministry of Education Special Budget Request (reinforcement of multiple academic research systems by advantage of university) was accepted by MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports Science, and Technology, Japan). The mission of the BAMIS project is supports and conducts scientific research integrating mind, body, and skills to help understand how physical movement develops the body and mind with vitality and pliancy. In particular, the purpose of the BAMIS project is to develop an innovative sports program aimed at developing a mind tough enough to overcome stress and to tackle obstacles. For this purpose, we will investigate the common essences of Budo(martial arts), such as Judo and Kendo, and of oriental body-work, such as Yoga and meditation, and we will study the effects of these common essences by using state-of-the-art techniques in cognitive neuroscience and by collaborating between independent research groups.

To enable us to accomplish our goal, we have created a new scientific field, namely Body And Mind Integrated Science, or BAMIS, in which translational research from basic physical science to practical fields and also collaborations between sports medicine and science, brain science, cognitive engineering, psychology, and physical culture can be established.

We will organize workshops, seminars and international forums. Furthermore, we will conduct basic, practical and translation research, and we will provide findings resulting from BAMIS projects to the public on our website.

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