Event Report: "IncluFES 2025" – An Event for Everyone to Enjoy, Regardless of Disability

An "inclusive" event for everyone to enjoy regardless of disability status, type, or degree, "IncluFES 2025," was held on Saturday, February 1, 2025, at the Tama City General Gymnasium. The event featured an exhibition match of "hand soccer," a sport based on soccer, and booths offering various inclusive experiences, including para sports. On the day, 576 people, primarily children with severe disabilities enrolled in special needs schools, attended and enjoyed the event.

Hand Soccer Exhibition Match

While it's said that only a very small number of people can participate in sports adopted for the Paralympics, hand soccer is a sport anyone can play, regardless of the type or degree of disability. On the field, players with various conditions—walking, running, using manual wheelchairs, electric wheelchairs, or crutches—play together. Players with severe disabilities who cannot play as field players can also participate as shooters taking free throws. The event featured exhibition matches throughout the day by teams of current students and alumni from special needs schools in Tokyo.

The lineup, resembling the contents of a toy box, is actually all items designed to challenge the goal.

Throughout, participants' joyful smiles overflowed, and when shots went in, they struck victory poses, their faces radiating a sense of accomplishment. The powerful cheers from visiting parents energized the venue.

Experience Booth

●Cyber Boccia (Booth Support: One to Ten)

By incorporating technology into the Paralympic sport "Boccia," anyone can easily experience it.

●Game Tournament

The game tournament booth provides controllers of various shapes, allowing everyone to enjoy competitive play together in the same game, regardless of disability status, type, or degree.

●Parasports Simulation Experience (Booth Exhibitor: Recruit)

A booth offering VR simulated experiences of para sports. Enjoy the unique perspective of para athletes and immersive 360° video. Details here

●The World's Happiest Tree: Let's Bloom It Together (Booth by Dentsu Solari Inc.)

Participants wrote their "future dreams" on paper, which were then used as leaves to complete a large heart-shaped tree.
 

During the event ceremony, para athletes appeared and delivered messages to visiting children. Numerous video messages were also received from actors and celebrities who resonated with "IncluFES2025".

From left: Hirotoku Arikuma (Para Athletics, Long Jump), Kentaro Kondo (Para Surfing), Fuka Kuwano (Boccia). All are affiliated with Dentsu Digital Inc.

This third year saw participation from 12 dentsu Japan companies. Each company contributed its expertise, carefully planning content, ceremonies, venue selection, visitor flow, and volunteer placement to ensure all participants enjoyed the event. Natsuki Hamasaki of Dentsu Live Inc., one of the production members, stated, "Aiming for a more inclusive event, we want to develop the venue and content so that people of all abilities, regardless of disability status, type, or degree, can participate easily."

Event Overview
Name: IncluFES 2025
Date & Time: Saturday, February 1, 2025, 9:40 AM - 3:30 PM
Venue: Tama City General Gymnasium
Organizer: IncluFES Executive Committee
Supported by: Tama City
Cooperation: Tokyo Metropolitan Special Needs Schools Physical Education Federation / Japan Hand Soccer Association / General Incorporated Association QOL Support Lab for Children and Adults with Disabilities CIAO /
DENTSU CORPORATE ONE INC. / Dentsu Inc. / Dentsu Digital Inc. / Dentsu I&C Partners Inc. / Dentsu Live Inc. / Dentsu Promotion Plus Inc. / PR Consulting Dentsu Inc. / Dentsu Casting and Entertainment Inc. / Dentsu Creative Pictures Inc. / Dentsu Solari Inc. / Dentsu Event Operations Inc. / DENTSU PROMOTION EXE INC. / CAPMAN / One to Ten Inc. / GLOE Inc. / Recruit

Details for IncluFES 2025 can be found here: https://inclufes.jp/