This research aims at examining students', parents', and leaders' recognition of a Saturday sports day
program in an elementary school. The students showed positive emotional reactions, such as joy, sense of
accomplishment, and self-confidence, and felt sorry for their classmates' swear words or unfair judgments. The
parents were very satisfied with their children's enjoyment, approached it easily through its improvement of
their children's sociality and its eschewal of development of elite players, and displayed appreciation and trust
for the leaders. The leaders tried to teach the true meaning of competition, and felt sorry for the lack of
consideration, care, and efforts for few female students. Lastly, as for the external environment, there were
satisfactory and unsatisfactory surroundings. Based on the results of this research above, more studies on
comprehensive current state of the participation and problems in Saturday sports day programs from a
macroscopic viewpoint and studies on lower graders in elementary schools are needed.