Nearly a week after the devastating destruction in Tohoku due to the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that killed several thousand people, followed by the Fukushima nuclear plant's ongoing radiation crisis, the bj-league has decided to resume competition this weekend to lift people's spirits.
But nothing else has been officially determined yet.
"We, the bj-league, have been running this league as a local-rooting league, and now we think about what we can really do," commissioner Toshimitsu Kawachi said on Thursday at a news conference in Tokyo's Minato Ward. "And we have figured out that our mission is to encourage the victims and those who suffer."
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