FC Tokyo hoped to coincide the city’s Olympic Games with a gold medal of their own. It appears they must settle for silver. Citizens of neighbouring, Yokohama, Hamako as they call themselves, hold specific opinions on Tokyo,…

Kashima Antlers may be left rueing this season. The league leaders could have wrapped up the title several weekends ago, but they have left the door wide open for Kawasaki Frontale to win it on the final day. Few Japanese football fans…

After a week's break for the international games, the J.League is back four round five – and no game is bigger than the meeting between the league's best attack and the division's best defence in a game which could have real repercussions on…

The fourth week of the J.League continued the thick and fast pace of football; as all the teams were in action again this round; which included the Japanese classic between Gamba Osaka and Urawa Red Diamonds. Early StartThe standardised 5 am…

The football is coming thick and fast in Japan's top league. This week saw the league's first Friday night kick-offs of the campaign. Could all the unusual suspects keep their momentum up as the J.League table begins to take shape? Kawasaki…

One point from their last three games isn't exactly the form that Sanfrecce Hiroshima fans are used to. It's also far from the wanted form given it's the 25th Anniversary of the club too. The team are out of sorts, but their upcoming cup game…

The veteran striker has joined the Grampus in the hope reigniting his career after a relatively uneventful year with Sanfrecce Hiroshima. Whilst he'll be playing in the second-tier; Nagoya is an important club which can help him rekindle his…