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Regional preview: Shizuoka

In the shadow of Mount Fuji, Shizuoka is a traditional football hotbed of Japan. The clubs there have endured a lean time in recent years, but there are once again…

ACL preview: Kashima Antlers vs Ulsan Hyundai

It is that time of year again when Asia’s best clubs get together and battle it out for continental honours in the Asian Champions League. This year it will probably…

Darth Scorer

Controversial, yet strong. Decisive, but not decisive enough. Yoshito Ōkubo starts a new life at F.C. Tokyo after a 4 year tenure with near neighbours Kawasaki Frontale, a team located…

Regional preview: Tokyo

The capital comes a-calling in this installment of regional previews. Some people will have a go at me for putting Machida in here – apparently there is some debate as…

Regional preview: Kyushu (North)

Shame on me, I forgot that there were a lot of teams on the island of Kyushu. Their preview is split into north & south. We start our previews in…

Regional previews: West Japan

West Japan, for our purposes, stretches from past Kobe in the east, to the tip of Japan’s main island Honshu in the west. In this geographical area, we have a…

Regional preview: Yokohama

Yokohama, a beautiful port city just to the south west of Tokyo, has a team in each of Japan’s three professional leagues. We’ll start our preview in J1, at a…

Regional previews: Tokai & Hokuriku

This area is loosely defined as Nagoya in the south, up to Kanazawa in the north. There are a lot of teams in this region that are looking to bounce…

Regional previews: Kita Kanto

An oft forgotten area of the footballing landscape in Japan, with the obvious exception of Kashima, the area between Tokyo & Tohoku is home to the reigning champions, two J2…

Regional previews: Shikoku

Shikoku is usually classed as Japan’s fourth island, and a beautiful island it is too. There are three professional teams resident there, all plying their trade in J2. We start…