In a rematch of Japan's most infamous American football game, Kwansei Gakuin University defeated Nihon University 42-24 in Sunday's Koshien Bowl. The win extended Kwansei's Koshien Bowl record championship haul to 31. Kwansei quarterback Kosei Okuno, hospitalized after an unsportsmanlike tackle in a May 2018 ...
Universities offer foreign wrestlers new path to pro sumo
Instead of struggling to land rare stable placements directly, foreigners are instead blazing a path to the pros through collegiate and amateur sumo.
Nihon University rugby chief apologizes for coach's abuse of players
The director of Nihon University's rugby department apologized on the team's website on Wednesday for the repeated abuse of players by the school's former head coach. According to the post by the director of rugby, Satoshi Hirayama, students' statements accused the head coach of abuses ...
Nihon University football player Taisuke Miyagawa set to return following suspension
A Japanese university football player, who was suspended last year for committing a dangerous tackle on an opponent, is set to make his competitive return in May, a source close to the matter said Wednesday. Nihon University linebacker Taisuke Miyagawa is scheduled to play for ...
The Japan Anti-Doping Agency said Thursday it has suspended a Nihon University hammer thrower for two years after he tested positive for a banned substance. Following a doping test conducted at the national student championships last September, Takuya Matsubara tested positive for clomiphene, an anti-estrogenic ...
Police won't seek indictment of ex-Nihon University coaches over dirty tackle
Police have decided not seek an indictment against former coaches of Nihon University's American football team over accusations that they instructed a player to commit a dangerous tackle on an opponent, investigative sources said Tuesday. In documents sent to prosecutors the same day, the Tokyo ...
The ministry will start preparing rules to ensure fairness in the entrance exams for the 2020 year and beyond.
Nihon University admits nepotism in entrance exams
Nihon University revealed that in the past two years it gave preference to 10 applicants whose parents had graduated from its medical school, at the expense of other students.
Ex-Nihon Univ. coaches unlikely to be charged in tackle scandal
Police are unlikely to build a case against former coaches of Nihon University's football team over their alleged instructions to a player to commit a dangerous tackle, finding no evidence to support the allegations, investigative sources said Tuesday. Former head coach Masato Uchida, 63, and ...
Hiroshi Wajima, lone yokozuna with college degree, dies at 70
Former yokozuna Wajima, who won elite makuuchi division tournaments 14 times in the 1970s and 1980s, and was known for his left-arm throwing technique, has died at age 70, his family said Tuesday. Wajima died in his Tokyo home on Monday. In recent years he ...
Japanese athletes under fire after Asian Games scandal
When four members of Japan's national basketball team were sent home from the Asian Games last month for patronizing prostitutes, the resulting scandal capped almost a year's worth of bad publicity for sports in Japan. Over this time we've had allegations of "power harassment" ...
Police have questioned two former coaches of Nihon University's American football team on a voluntary basis after one of its players who injured an opponent with a dangerous tackle said he was ordered by the two to do so, investigative sources said on Friday. Former ...
