The purpose of this research is to clarify the psychological aptitudes of Japanese and Korean University Judo athletes concerning competition and to compare especially their will-to-compete. The subjects, 131 Japanese and 119 Korean student judo athletes, were selected from those who belong to 5 Universities which are ranked highest by their results get in the National Intercollegiate Meetings of Judo in both countries. The data were obtained by using the same questionnaires of TSMI and psychological enquetes in each groups of subjects. The main results were as follow : 1) In general, between Japanese and Korean university judo athletes, there was a relative resemblance with respect to the TSMI results. Both Japanese and Korean judo athletes made lower points in TS7 (fighting spirit) and TS10 (causality reversion of effort), and made higher points in TS17 (intemperance). On the other hand, Japanese and Korean judo athletes made a difference in terms of TS4 (will-to-practice), TS6 (psychological toughness), TS9 (planningmind) and TS11 (intellectual interest). Japanese student judo athletes make higher points in TS4 and TS11 than Korean athletes who make higher points in TS6 and TS9. Both Japanese and Korean athletes made lower points in their relation with coach ; it is necessary to make more reliable the relationship between athletes and coach. 2) Both Japanese and Korean judo athletes think that their country country has the judo tradition and Japanese students are more sensible of it. Korean athletes are more aware of possibility to contribute to prestige exaltation of their country in the international community and are very sensitive of the national aids that will be given for them.
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