Japan Society for the Philosophy of Sport and Physical Education (JSPSPE) celebrates its fortieth anniversary of foundation in February 2018. Since its inception, supported by the active members, JSPSPE has been serving not only the scholars but the school teachers who are interested in the philosophic study of sport and physical education too. It has contributed much to the philosophical profession as well. Maekawa (1979) wrote at the dawn of the philosophic study of physical education. “I was given a kind advice to change the major name of the department to the ‘philosophy of physical education’ when I was in Tokyo University of Education…I remember having said ‘I did not have any confidence to give a lecture on philosophy of physical education’ and refused the advice.” He also said that he often visited the department after retiring on a pension. “I was once heard from Professor Asada that he had great interest in the philosophical method for studying physical education. I felt at that time that a heated discussion on the philosophy of physical education was finally about to start.” While referring to the prospects for a new doctoral program on philosophy of physical education in Tsukuba, where Tokyo University of Education moved in 1974, Asada (1983) mentioned that the traditional educational system was not enough for the philosophy of physical education to supersede the principal of physical education. He guided the graduate students to take the problems about the various ideas of important figures in physical education as their subjects. He planned to have meetings in order to have students discuss various ideas which were useful for the philosophy of physical education. These activities were determined the direction of subsequent researches, which explore what phenomenology is and try to figure out the phenomena concerning body, movement and culture from the philosophical viewpoint. JSPSPE was organized in February 1987 and its first annual meeting was held in August the same year. The first volume of Journal of the philosophy of Sport and physical Education was published next year. This volume was a maiden work that young scholars tried to challenge the philosophical issues as their own problem in order to aim the development for the philosophy of sport and physical education. According to Kataoka (1979), the journal title implies that we not only inquire about the problem of sport and physical education but also search for truth on sport and physical education by discussing the problem over again and seeking after truth. JSPSPE started on a small scale at the beginning. It has become the international academic society with a membership of over two hundred. In this paper, looking back upon the history of its last forty years, the future prospects in the philosophic study of sport and physical education as well as the recent trend in this profession are mentioned.