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NADESHIKO

Japan Times
SOCCER
Apr 21, 2021
Nadeshiko captain Saki Kumagai to leave Lyon at end of season
Japan women's national soccer team captain Saki Kumagai announced on Instagram on Tuesday she will be leaving Olympique Lyonnais after eight years with the French team.
Japan Times
SOCCER / From the Spot
Apr 13, 2021
Little certain for Nadeshiko Japan despite pair of blowout wins
A number of players excelled in friendlies against Paraguay and Panama, but questions remain over whether they've served as adequate preparation for the Tokyo Olympics.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Apr 11, 2021
Nadeshiko Japan beats Panama as Yuika Sugasawa nets hat trick
Asako Takakura's side put on a goal-scoring clinic against the outclassed Central American side in the first international game played at Tokyo's new National Stadium.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Apr 9, 2021
Nadeshiko Japan routs Paraguay 7-0 in friendly
Five different Nadeshiko Japan players found the net at Yurtec Stadium Sendai in the team's first international outing since March last year.
Japan Times
SOCCER / From the Spot
Apr 2, 2021
Prospects looking brighter for Japan's senior and Olympic squads
To say that the last week was a good one for followers of Japan's men's teams is somewhat of an understatement.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Mar 24, 2021
Nadeshiko Japan hero Homare Sawa to miss Tokyo Olympic torch relay
Homare Sawa, the most valuable player and top goal scorer of the World Cup in Germany, is dealing with a long-term condition affecting her inner ear and will not run in the relay.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Mar 8, 2021
Great East Japan Earthquake survivor Jun Endo learns importance of resilience in life
She was buoyed through the hard times by her dream of joining the Japanese women's national team, Nadeshiko Japan, which beat the odds in 2011 and brought joy to the tsunami-hit nation.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Feb 23, 2021
Nadeshiko Japan to play Olympic game in disaster-hit Miyagi
Japan's women's soccer team will play its third and final group-stage match of the postponed Tokyo Olympics at Miyagi Stadium, in the northeastern Japan region hit hard by the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters, FIFA confirmed Tuesday.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Jan 12, 2021
Japan to compete in 2021 SheBelieves Cup
Japan is among the four teams that will participate in next month's SheBelieves Cup, a women's invitational soccer tournament hosted by the United States, the Japan Football Association said Tuesday.
Japan Times
SOCCER / From the Spot
Dec 6, 2020
Play hard, work hard: Nadecare founder Ami Otaki wants to help players build careers in WE League era
Nadecare, an organization intended to support women's soccer players in achieving their career goals and raise the sport's profile in the country, was launched in 2019.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Nov 8, 2020
Urawa wins era-ending Nadeshiko League title
Urawa Reds defeated Ehime FC 5-1 on Sunday to clinch the last Nadeshiko League first-division championship before Japan's new professional women's soccer competition launches next year.
Japan Times
SOCCER / WE LEAGUE
Oct 15, 2020
Japan women’s pro soccer WE League reveals 11 clubs for first season
The first WE League campaign will include seven J. League-affiliated clubs intended to give the new professional women's soccer league a solid foundation of support.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Sep 2, 2020
Vegalta transfers women's team to title sponsor Mynavi
Vegalta Sendai will transfer ownership of its women’s side to sponsor Mynavi, the J. League club announced Monday, in a decision intended to protect the future of both teams in the wake of the economic impact of the coronavirus.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Aug 1, 2020
WE League receives unexpectedly high number of applicants for inaugural season
The announcement is a positive omen for Japan's newly formed professional women's soccer league, which is slated to kick off in September 2021.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Jul 28, 2020
WE League chair plots ambitious, progressive path for women's game
After spearheading the growth of Japanese women's soccer in the 80s, Kikuko Okajima hopes to make the new league a force for social change.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Mar 12, 2020
U.S. tops winless Japan to capture SheBelieves Cup title
Japan dropped its third straight game as the United States women's national team won its third SheBelieves Cup title on Wednesday with a 3-1 victory at a sold-out Toyota Stadium.
SOCCER
Feb 16, 2020
New Japanese women's soccer league to require female executives at each club
Teams taking part in Japan's new women's professional soccer league, that is scheduled to begin play in 2021, will be required to have at least one female executive, sources knowledgeable about the plan said Friday.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Feb 5, 2020
Nadeshiko League legend Shinobu Ono hangs up cleats
Former Japan striker Shinobu Ono, the all-time top goal scorer in the women's Nadeshiko League, has retired from soccer after 21 seasons, her former club Nojima Stella Kanagawa Sagamihara said Wednesday.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Dec 26, 2019
Daisuke Takahashi, Yuko Arimori among former Olympians named as runners for 2020 Games torch relay
Figure skater Daisuke Takahashi and marathoner Yuko Arimori were among several past Olympians added to the list of runners in the 2020 Tokyo Games torch relay on Wednesday.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Dec 18, 2019
Nadeshiko Japan beats South Korea to win EAFF E-1 women's championship
Japan beat South Korea 1-0 on Tuesday, securing its third EAFF E-1 Women's Football Championship title.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
Raising kids in Japan as a single parent? It takes a village.
Making things work as a foreign, single mother in Japan isn't easy, but these tips and tricks can help you through the hardest parts.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
In Japan, regional revitalization fails to halt population decline
Sakiyama elementary school in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, in March .Over the past decade, the government has directed efforts toward policies designed to give young people incentives to base themselves in rural areas.
Putin’s war will soon reach Russians’ tax bills
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting in St. Petersburg on Friday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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