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J LEAGUE

Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Dec 5, 2015
Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style
Tokyo, September 1964: A squad of plainclothes police descend on the tony Ginza shopping district and round up hundreds of Japanese youths who had outraged local businesses. Their crime? Loitering in what was then outre style — button-down shirts, skinny ties, suit jackets and chino pants. These delinquents...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Dec 4, 2015
WJBL's Antelopes focus on positive gains
In Japan's sports culture, you are supposed to be disappointed and mourn when you lose a game.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Dec 4, 2015
Gamba's Usami aims to end scoring drought at critical time
Gamba Osaka manager Kenta Hasegawa is counting on his top scorer Takashi Usami to end a personal dry spell and key a fight-back in the J. League Championship Final against Sanfrecce Hiroshima on Saturday.
Rugby
Dec 3, 2015
Verblitz drop injured Palu
Australia back-row forward Wycliff Palu, who was set to join Toyota Verblitz this season, has been dropped by the Top League club due to an injury suffered during the Rugby World Cup in England, the team announced Thursday.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Dec 2, 2015
Sasaki, Kashiwa strike late as Sanfrecce beat Gamba in first leg of final
Sho Sasaki and Yoshifumi Kashiwa both scored in injury time to earn Sanfrecce Hiroshima a 3-2 win away to defending champions Gamba Osaka in the first leg of the J.League Championship Final on Wednesday night.
Rugby
Nov 28, 2015
Goromaru guides Yamaha Jubilo past NEC Green Rockets
Last season's All-Japan Championship winners Yamaha Jubilo remained unbeaten in the 2015-16 Top League on Saturday thanks to a 39-19 win over NEC Green Rockets.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Nov 28, 2015
Gamba beat Reds to book place in J. League title game
Late goals from Hiroki Fujiharu and Brazilian striker Patric sent defending champions Gamba Osaka into the J. League Championship final with a 3-1 extra-time win away to first-stage winners Urawa Reds in the playoff semifinal on Saturday.
Japan Times
Rugby
Nov 21, 2015
Rugby World Cup hero Tanaka slams JRFU for lack of effort
Panasonic Wild Knights and Japan scrumhalf Fumiaki Tanaka said Saturday that the Japan Rugby Football Union lacks the necessary zeal to capitalize on this year's success at the Rugby World Cup.
Rugby
Nov 16, 2015
Springbok Kriel joins Red Hurricanes
Top League side NTT Docomo Red Hurricanes announced the signing of South African international Jesse Kriel on Monday.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Nov 15, 2015
Cameron leads Frontiers to win over Deers
Colby Cameron completed 35 of 48 passes for 304 yards and two TD passes to Takeshi Akiyama and scored another on an 8-yard run, leading the defending national champion Fujitsu Frontiers to a 34-24 victory over the Lixil Deers on Sunday at Yokohama Stadium.
Rugby
Nov 14, 2015
Goromaru passes 1,000-point milestone
On the day Brave Blossoms pinup boy Ayumu Goromaru became just the second player after Ryan Nicholas to pass 1,000 Top League points, Japan captain Michael Leitch took just seven minutes to pick up his first five-pointer of the new season.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 8, 2015
Voting proceeds smoothly in Myanmar's first free election for 25 years
Voting unfolded smoothly in Myanmar on Sunday with no reports of violence to puncture a mood of jubilation marking the Southeast Asian nation's first free nationwide election in 25 years, its biggest stride yet in a journey from dictatorship to democracy.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Nov 6, 2015
Leicester City continues to confound experts with play
We were all wrong.
SOCCER
Nov 3, 2015
Kashima approves move to Scottish club Dundee pending work permit: BBC
Two-time Japan World Cup goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima has agreed to join Scottish Premier League provided he is granted a work permit, the BBC reported Tuesday.
BASKETBALL
Nov 3, 2015
Verdell Jones III joins D-League's Warriors
Guard Verdell Jones III, who helped the Fukushima Firebonds reach the bj-league playoffs as an expansion team last season, has been named to the Santa Cruz Warriors' 15-man training camp roster, the NBA Development League team announced on Monday.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Nov 2, 2015
Foreign quarterbacks raising standards in X League
In Japanese football's eight decades of history, the last few years have clearly been an epoch-making period because of one trend: an influx of American quarterbacks.
Japan Times
Rugby
Nov 2, 2015
Top League looking to capitalize on Rugby World Cup fever
Top League stars, including some of Japan's Rugby World Cup heroes, assembled for a news conference in Tokyo on Monday as the 2015-16 season prepares to kick off around the nation on Nov. 13.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Oct 31, 2015
Obic outplays IBM in second-stage opener
Shun Sugawara, making his first start since Sept. 13, completed 19 of 30 passes for 226 yard and a score and Asaki Mochizuki had two rushing touchdowns as the Obic Seagulls beat the IBM BigBlue 34-26 on Saturday at Yokohama Stadium in the second-stage opener of the X League.
BASKETBALL / NBA
Oct 23, 2015
Bulls release former Yokohama guard Simmons
The Chicago Bulls waived former Yokohama B-Corsairs guard Marcus Simmons on Thursday.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Oct 21, 2015
Anderson having instant impact for Rise in X League
Young quarterback Benjamin Anderson tried to make it to the NFL as a free agent this past spring, but it just didn't work out.

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