Development of Professional Football in Japan and Inspirations

Although professionalization reforms for football had been initiated both in Japan and China,different re sults were achieved.Professional football in Japan made great progress and that in China suffered a disastrous de cline.In this paper,professional Japanese football was analyzed from the viewpoint of market and property rights.It was concluded that the successful experiences in Japan were that the clubs owned de facto control to the football league,which was common for world football and should be what was for the Chinese football.