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Tokyo Skytree will celebrate its first anniversary Wednesday but has not yet completed its prime mission of reliably broadcasting to households in the capital and its suburbs. Since December, the world’s tallest free-standing tower, at 634 meters high, has been making test broadcasts to ...
If you work in an office, you probably spend a fair part of your time sitting at a desk, which, of course, isn’t very healthy. To combat that the Pomodoro technique recommends that you work in intervals with regular breaks — for example, 25 ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
"Outsider art" is relatively new in Japan and, as a genre, works made by self-taught Japanese artists are still not very well known on the category-delineating, label-loving international art scene.
After all these years, Rafael Nadal still knows how to dominate Roger Federer. In the 30th meeting between the two tennis greats, Nadal controlled the final from start to finish to win 6-1, 6-3 Sunday for his seventh Italian Open title. “Rafa was just ...
A serious accident that left two players in the hospital may have cast a pall over Monday’s match between Omiya Ardija and Sanfrecce Hiroshima, but the reaction of both sets of fans and players was a credit to the Japanese game. With the clash ...
Sanfrecce Hiroshima goalkeeper Takuya Masuda has been discharged from hospital after showing no worsening signs from a concussion suffered in Monday’s game at Omiya Ardija, his J. League first-division club said Tuesday. Making his J1 debut, Masuda collided head-to-head with Omiya forward Takamitsu Tomiyama ...
Unfashionable Omiya Ardija underline their title credentials with a 2-1 win over J-League champions Sanfrecce Hiroshima but the victory is bittersweet as an accident sends two players to the hospital.
J. League champions Sanfrecce Hiroshima are in danger of first-round elimination in the Asian Champions League after suffering their third consecutive defeat in a 1-0 loss to South Korea’s Pohang Steelers on Tuesday. Bae Chun Suk scored the only goal midway through the opening ...
Highlighting the top nine finishers from the J. League last season in the second part of this two-day preview.
Sanfrecce Hiroshima were brought back to earth with a thud on Wednesday as the J. League champions crashed to a 2-0 defeat at home to Uzbekistan’s Bunyodkor in their Group G opener in the Asian Champions League. Back in the ACL for the first ...
Reigning J. League player of the year Hisato Sato lit up the Xerox Super Cup with a spectacular goal to give league champions Sanfrecce Hiroshima a 1-0 win over Emperor’s Cup holders Kashiwa Reysol in the 2013 season curtain-raiser on Saturday.
Sanfrecce Hiroshima manager Hajime Moriyasu urges his team to forget last year’s historic J. League title triumph and start afresh in Saturday’s 2013 season curtain-raising Xerox Super Cup match against Kashiwa Reysol.
J.League first-division side FC Tokyo announced Thursday they had acquired Japan forward Tadanari Lee from English Premier League club Southampton on loan through the end of June. “I had a lot of concerns, but I’ve made a firm decision to do this,” Lee said ...
FC Tokyo is in talks to acquire Japan striker Tadanari Lee from Premier League club Southampton, Takayuki Tateishi, head of team operations for the first division J. League club, said Wednesday. “We want to decide on a striker by the end of camp (in ...
Teams around the J. League have been busy parading their winter recruits this week, but if the recent travails of several promoted sides are anything to go by, this year’s J1 new boys will need all the reinforcements they can get. Ventforet Kofu, Shonan ...
J. League first-division side Urawa Reds announced Monday that they have agreed to terms with Sanfrecce Hiroshima defender Ryota Moriwaki. The 26-year-old Moriwaki played in 33 of Sanfrecce’s 34 league games this year and also for the new J1 champions in the recently completed ...