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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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A-Z of J.League 2017
Happy new year, and welcome back to J.League Regista for 2017! With the J.League kicking off in a month’s time, it is time to start looking forward to what is…
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Farewell 2016
2016 is, as they say, in the books (almost – if you exclude the Emperor’s Cup). A year of surprises, and non-surprises. A year of ups & downs….
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(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…
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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…
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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…
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