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In 1927 Kosuke Komatsu, who had just returned to Japan after studying in France, founded the National Music Association for the purpose of having "all the nation's people sing." In that same year, on November 23, the group sponsored the 1st Choral Competition. That was the starting point of the choral movement throughout the country, of which the current Japan Choral Association is the mother organization. Due to World War II, the 2nd Choral was canceled, but after the war, Komatsu was active in re-starting the competition, and choral associations sprang up all over the country.
Between 1945 and 1947, choral associations were established in the western (Seibu), west central (Kansai), central Pacific (Tokai), and east central (Kanto) portions of Japan; and in 1948 these were amalgamated into the Japan Choral Association. At the same time, other associations in the central (Chubu/Chugoku) and northeastern (Tohoku) areas, as well as in Tokyo, Hokkaido, and Shikoku were born. Thus, under the name of the Japan Choral Association, amateur choruses throughout the land joined hands.
Together with the increasing popularity of choral music and the pace of the postwar period, the Japan Choral Association underwent a restructuring that led to the Asahi Shimbun newspaper's donating a full two-page spread to its activities for the first time. Even today, the Japan Choral Association receives the general co-sponsorship of Asahi Shimbun in its JCA National Choral Competition, JCA Choral Workshop, JCA Cantat for Mothers' Chorus, JCA Mothers' Chorus Festival, JCA Junior Chorus Festival, the public solicitation of songs for its national competition, choral festivals, and other activities. Indeed, without the cooperation of both parties, the scale of the choral competition would most likely never have attained its present scope.
In this manner, the Japan Choral Association, as its name implies, is the largest organization within Japan's choral world and the sole organization to have been granted the long-desired status of a legal corporation, which it was granted in 1970, and which allowed it to take another step forward. In 1979 the much awaited Japan Choral Music Centre was established in Ebisu(Tokyo), and in 1997 the JCA celebrated its fiftieth anniversary.
The Japan Choral Association now operates with a new vigor, and is endowed with a broader viewpoint. Based on the idea of "solidarity and exchange," and acting through the medium of choruses, it works to help foster development in musical culture as well as to bring about a fulfillment of the choral movement.

President
10. Saeko Hasegawa (2022 - )