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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: Hokkaido & Tohoku

In doing a preview of the season, we are going to break it down into bite-sized, regional chunks. We are starting from the north and are going to work all…

(J)3 is the Magic Number

What’s going in J3 I hear you (well, at least some of you anyway) say? No worries, we’ve got you covered as some of the brightest & most informed minds…

The Nowhere Men

Ask someone to point to Tottori on a Japanese map, and the chances are that they will struggle to accurately place it. Ask someone to tell you what the current…

Looking at J3

J.League Regista invited two of the sharpest J3 minds, @GifuRichy & @JMiraiBlog to discuss their thoughts on what has happened so far in the third tier of Japanese football. J.League…

Talking point: What’s the point?

Believe it or not, @sushi_football isn’t really a fan of U23 gimmick teams in J3. Here, he explains why. I don’t really know who to address this to. I don’t…

Chasing the J

Richy Palmer (@GifuRichy) is nothing if not an equal opportunist. He is longing for the day when each of Japan’s 47 prefectures are represented in the J.League. The ones which…