This research is a comparative study on Korean and Japanese central governments’ sports plan and guidelines of the national sports policies. Through a comparative analysis of the two countries sports plan, this study attempted to provide fresh ideas to improve the sports policy system in Korea. A comparative study has yielded the following conclusions and implications. First, although Korea and Japan both have a policy framework on sports plan, differences emerge in the overall system and structure for the policy, program, and project. Particularly, a the virtuous cyclical creation structure of the Japanese sports policy system appears to be a proper initiatives for Korean sports policy system in the future. Second, whereas Korea mainly retains existing sports policy framework, Japan, reflecting the idea of the Basic Sports Law, establishes sports plans based on a renewed policy on national sports policy and a consistent and unified system. Third, While Korea organizes sports policy mostly in terms of economic considerations, Japan implements sports policy by establishing the basic sports plan reflecting the ‘sports rights’ and ‘絆(kijeuna)’ of human society. Japan s sports policy can provide Korea with a useful references for forming basic sports plans and establishing the basic sports law in the future.