Teiko National Games

The Teiko National Games (dubbed as "Kokumin Gemu" in Japanese or National Meet in some cases) is an annual multi-sporting event involving student-athletes from all the ten prefectures and districts of the Federal Kingdom of Teiko organized and governed by the Commission on Sports under the banner of the Ministry of Health, Education, Culture and Sports.

Started in November 1986 a few months after the 1986 Teiko Constitutional Crises, the Teiko National Games Program is an annual multi-level national scholastic athletic competition conducted by the Commission on Sports and participated in by secondary and collegiate students from both public and private schools. It is the culmination of sports activities in Teiko schools, which start with local school intramurals, followed by the district, and prefectural athletic meets. Using ladderized system, only students are prefectural champions can be qualified to join the national meet.

The objectives of the National Games are: (1)to promote Physical Education and sports as an integral part of the Basic Education curriculum for holistic development of the youth; (2) inculcate the spirit of discipline, teamwork, excellence, fair play, solidarity, sportsmanship, and other values inherent in sports; (3) promote and achieve peace by means of sports; (4) widen the base for talent identification, selection, recruitment, training and exposure of elementary pupils and secondary students to serve as a feeder to the National Sports Association (NSA) for international competitions; and provide a database for a valid and universal basis to further improve the school sports development programs.

The legal basis of the Teiko National Games is stipulated in the provision of the 1986 Teiko Constitution under the articles regarding fostering sports awareness and imploring the importance of youth in nation building. The recently concluded 30th Teiko National Games was held at Dojimazaki City last April 19-25, 2015, the third that Dojimazaki had hosted the event. In August 2015, Shizuoka was chosen to host the 31st Teiko National Games. This will be the first for Shizuoka to host the national games.

Participating prefectures
As of the moment there are eleven prefectures participating in the event. This is one more than the ten prefectures of Teiko as Kaijo Prefecture which has a population of 8 million was divided into two different entry prefectures, East and West Kaijo. Rakuzan is also vying for the same policy by diving Rakuzan into South and North Rakuzan but it has yet to be approved. A move to allow core cities to be different from their prefectures has also been submitted and is due for approval.

Sports
There are twenty-four (24) sports are being contested at the Teiko National Games annually. All sports are competed in secondary and collegiate levels. There are some events that are made optional such Kendo, Kenjutsu and Jujutsu which can be or can be not played during the event. Sometimes special sports are held too as long as a memorandum is released six months before the national meet.