One last photo from this week's Japanese League Cup final, as FC Tokyo fans utilise some toilet paper.

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Nabisco Cup final, Kawasaki Frontale vs. FC Tokyo, November 3rd 2009.

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Today, our tifo series swings to Asia for the first time.

We check out Japanese fans at the Nabisco Cup (also known as the J-League Cup) final between Kawasaki Frontale and FC Tokyo, held earlier this week.

This video is a little slow to get going, but there's some gorgeous colour, some impressive banners, and generally well choreographed displays from supporters of both teams.

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Sunday October 25
Kawasaki Frontale 7 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 0
Nagoya Grampus 3 Jubilo Iwata 3
Shimizu S-Pulse 1 FC Tokyo 2
Urawa Reds 0 Omiya Ardija 3
Saturday October 24
Gamba Osaka 0 Yokohama F Marinos 0
Kashima Antlers 3 JEF United Chiba 0
Kashiwa Reysol 0 Montedio Yamagata 1
Kyoto Sanga 1 Oita Trinita 1
Vissel Kobe 1 Albirex Niigata 0
Kawasaki Frontale lead the J-League after 30 rounds of the J1 championship following an incredible 7-0 thrashing of Sanfrecce. Click to continue reading...

That's how you do it, lads! Dragan Stojkovic, coach of Japanese side Nagoya Grampus, showed his players that he could still walk the walk with a spectacular goal from his technical area. The ex-Yugoslavia international found the net with a beautiful strike. And he did it in formal shoes. The match officials were quite so impressed and [. Click to continue reading...

J-League Division 2. Sapporo 1-0 Tochigi, October 21st 2009

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Sunday October 18
JEF United Chiba 1 Kyoto Sanga 1
Oita Trinita 2 Shimizu S-Pulse 1
Saturday October 17
Albirex Niigata 0 Urawa Reds 1
FC Tokyo 4 Kashiwa Reysol 0
Jubilo Iwata 0 Kashima Antlers 0
Montedio Yamagata 1 Vissel Kobe 0
Omiya Ardija 2 Kawasaki Frontale 3
Sanfrecce Hiroshima 2 Gamba Osaka 2
Yokohama F Marinos 2 Nagoya Grampus 1
Kawasaki Frontale now lead the J-League after 29 rounds of the J1 championship. Click to continue reading...

Vissel Kobe (ヴィッセル神戸) is a Japanese professional football (soccer) club, currently playing in the J. League Division 1. After finishing last season in a respectable 10th position last season, Vissel Kobe is currently in 14th position in the 2009/10 J.League. Here's a look at the Vissel Kobe Asics 2009/10 home and away kits. Click to continue reading...

Sunday September 27
Shimizu S-Pulse 1 Vissel Kobe 0
Urawa Reds 1 Yokohama F Marinos 2
Saturday September 26
FC Tokyo 3 Jubilo Iwata 2
Gamba Osaka 2 Kawasaki Frontale 1
JEF United Chiba 1 Montedio Yamagata 2
Kashima Antlers 1 Nagoya Grampus 4
Kyoto Sanga 1, Omiya Ardija 3
Oita Trinita 0 Kashiwa Reysol 0
Sanfrecce Hiroshima 1 Albirex Niigata 2
Kashima Antlers remain top of the J-League but now only by a single point as the season approches its traditionally tight finish. Click to continue reading...

Sunday August 30
Kashiwa Reysol 0 Kyoto Sanga 0
Kawasaki Frontale 1 Shimizu S-Pulse 1
Montedio Yamagata 1 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 2
Saturday August 29
FC Tokyo 2 Oita Trinita 0
Jubilo Iwata 1 Gamba Osaka 3
Nagoya Grampus 1 Albirex Niigata 0
Omiya Ardija 3 Kashima Antlers 1
Vissel Kobe 3 Urawa Reds 2
Yokohama F Marinos 1 JEF United Chiba 1
Kashima Antlers remain top of the J-League followed by Kawasaki Frontale, Sanfrecce Hiroshima and Shimizu S-Pulse. Click to continue reading...

Sunday August 23
Gamba Osaka 2 Nagoya Grampus 3
Kashima Antlers 3 FC Tokyo 1
Kawasaki Frontale 2 Montedio Yamagata 0
Saturday August 22
Omiya Ardija 1 JEF United Chiba 1
Albirex Niigata 1 Kyoto Sanga 2
Shimizu S-Pulse 5 Jubilo Iwata 1
Sanfrecce Hiroshima 2 Urawa Reds 1
Kashiwa Reysol 1 Yokohama F Marinos 1
Kashima Antlers continue to lead the J-League followed by Kawasaki Frontale and Shimizu S-Pulse. Click to continue reading...

A country whose folklore is so rich and replete with hobgoblins, pixies, gnomes, druids, and writers like Shakespeare, Arthur Conan Doyle, JRR Tolkien, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, and now JP Rowling has not kept up with a commensurate streak of imagination when it comes to naming their clubs.

I mean how many clubs can be called United, City, County, and Athletic.

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Sunday, 16 August
FC Tokyo 0 Yokohama F Marinos 0
Omiya Ardija 1 Jubilo Iwata 1
Shimizu S-Pulse 1 Albirex Niigata 1
Saturday, 15 August
Gamba Osaka 1 Urawa Reds 0
Kashima Antlers 1 Oita Trinita 0
Kyoto Sanga 1 Montedio Yamagata 0
JEF United Chiba 0 Kashiwa Reysol 0
Nagoya Grampus 0 Kawasaki Frontale 2
Vissel Kobe 0 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 0
Kashima Antlers lead the J-League followed by Kawasaki Frontale, Albirex Niigata and Urawa Reds. Click to continue reading...

Sunday, 3 August
Kawasaki Frontale 2 FC Tokyo 1
Yokohama F Marinos 3 Kyoto Sanga 0
Albirex Niigata 0 Omiya Ardija 0
Jubilo Iwata 3 JEF United Chiba 2
Sanfrecce Hiroshima 1 Kashima Antlers 0
Oita Trinita 2 Nagoya Grampus 1
Saturday, 2 August
Montedio Yamagata 1 Gamba Osaka 1
Urawa Reds 0 Shimizu S-Pulse 1
Kashiwa Reysol 0 Vissel Kobe 1
Kashima Antlers still top the J-League followed Kawasaki Frontale, Albirex Niigata and Urawa Reds. Click to continue reading...

Play to the whistle This J-League craziness comes from a match between Sagan Tosu and Mito Hollyhock. Mito scored their second goal in a 3-1 victory after the referee tripped over. Concerned Sagan players stopped in their tracks to stare at the sprawled official. Mito's Kim Tae-yeon did not share their worries and instead smashed the ball [. Click to continue reading...

Sunday, 26 July
Albirex Niigata 1 Montedio Yamagata 1
Jubilo Iwata 1 Yokohama F Marinos 1
Kyoto Sanga 3 Kawasaki Frontale 1
Saturday, 25 July
Gamba Osaka 1 Oita Trinita 0
FC Tokyo 0 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 0
JEF United Chiba 1 Shimizu S-Pulse 2
Kashima Antlers 1 Kashiwa Reysol 1
Urawa Reds 0 Nagoya Grampus 3
Vissel Kobe 1 Omiya Ardija 2
Kashima Antlers top the J-League by 10 points from Albirex Niigata and Urawa Reds. Click to continue reading...

Takayuki Morimoto
Forward
Catania
May 7, 1988 (Age:21)
Background:
Once considered the "Golden Boy" of Japanese football, Morimoto has been building up his reputation in Europe instead of Japan. The youngest player and goalscorer in J-League history, has had a fine season in Serie A where he has scored 7 goals in 23 League games. Click to continue reading...

Hello, I am a new poster on here and I will be discussing the J-League and Japanese football.
Here is this week's match of the day.
Gamba Osaka v. Albirex Niigata
Background: Finally after two weeks of no games the J-League can finally resume. Gamba should be a little rusty after not playing for 2 whole weeks while Niigata's recent 1-2 defeat against bottom-dwellers Oita Trinita in the Nabisco Cup should help keep them in match fitness. Click to continue reading...

The big European leagues have declared their champions and shut up shop for the summer. They won't be back until August. So this is where we separate the fairweather footy fans from the die-hards. The fairweathers will get distracted and find some other way to pass the time. The die-hards will ask: What else can I [. Click to continue reading...

With his Inter contract about to expire, Figo will - in his own words - "no longer play at a high level." Figo is 36 years old and just finished his Inter career with another scudetto, which is a decent enough way to bow out. But that doesn't mean he's done altogether. There are plenty of [...] Click to continue reading...

Take a look at this J-League goal from Jubilo Iwata's South Korean attacker Lee Keun-Ho. Dribbling along the touchline Lee goes around the keeper and then back inside before slotting it home to make it six goals in six games for the 24 year old since he traded K-League for J-League. Lee is part of an [. Click to continue reading...

Nagoya Grampus (名古屋グランパス) (formerly Nagoya Grampus Eight) is a Japanese Association football club which plays in the first division of the J. League. The team is based in Nagoya and was founded as the company team of Toyota Motor Corp. in 1939. Grampus Eight are one of only six teams to have competed in Japan's [. Click to continue reading...

Urawa Red Diamonds (浦和レッドダイヤモンズ ) is a professional football club playing in Japan's J. League. It's of Japan's best supported teams boasting the highest average crowds for eight of the J-League's fifteen seasons thus far. In 2007 the team attracted an average gate of over 46000, the highest in both Japan and Asia as a [. Click to continue reading...

Japanese J. League Division 1 sides Júbilo Iwata and Shimizu S-Pulse have unveiled their 2008/09 home, away and goalkeeper kits. The league's 2009/10 season kicks off in February. The kit design's appear to follow a new Puma template that the sportwear company is using for the 2009/10 FC Zenit St. Petersburg and Feyenoord Rotterdam kits. Click to continue reading...

In front of 22,000 fans, the Asian Champions League holders, Gamba Osaka, were sent back to west Japan after being thumped 4-0 by a lively Kawasaki Frontale at the Todoroki stadium yesterday. Under blue skies, the team from Osaka will be ruing some half chances in the first half. If they had have taken some [. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal should be in the Championship. If footy bloggers ruled the universe. Brazil's search for the country's sexiest fan. Italy's all-refugee football club. Didier Drogba flings currency into the crowd. Japan's no country for second-string players. Derek Parlane McQueen: The biggest name in football Steven Appiah's gone from the pitch to the courtroom. Click to continue reading...

Some clubs bring the full cavalry to their cup matches because it's the only competition they have a chance at making a decent showing. Other clubs have more important things to worry about. Like fatigue, injuries, other competitions, and how the owner's going to feel about losing a superduperstar to injury for the year up [. Click to continue reading...

Japanese club Gamba Osaka won the Asian Champions League when they beat Adelaide United 2-0 in Adelaide on Wednesday. The J. League side tallied a 5-0 aggregate against the Australians. The Australian side's hopes of overcoming a 3-0 deficit incurred in Japan were thrashed when striker Lucas scored twice within the opening 15 [. Click to continue reading...

Shimizu S-Pulse lost the Shizuoka Derby against relegation-threatened Jubilo Iwata 0-1 at Ecopa Stadium. A poor game was settled in the first minute of the second half after a terrible mistake from the kick-off by the S-Pulse defence.
Shimizu, fresh from defeat in the League Cup, were booed off the field by their passionate support. Click to continue reading...

TOKYO - Japanese giants Gamba Osaka brushed past Australian A-League side Adelaide United of 3-0 in the first leg of the Asian Champions League final today. Brazilian striker Lucas put the Gamba in front in the 37th minute as he sprung Adelaide United's offside trap before finding the net with a deflected shot. Click to continue reading...

THE Football Association of Singapore (FAS) have tried hard to get their most promising Lions to ply their trade abroad, to gain more exposure in bigger leagues. Earlier this year, Singapore striker and skipper Indra Sahdan went for a trial with MLS side Real Salt Lake, while his national team-mate, keeper Lionel Lewis, trained with Manchester [. Click to continue reading...

Defending champs Urawa Red Diamonds had the upper hand as they hosted Gamba Osaka in the semifinal of the Asian CL semifinals today, having drawn in Osaka through The Almighty Away Goal. They made it 2-1 in the first half, but 45 minutes and some shoddy corner defending later, Gamba were through to their first [. Click to continue reading...

Looks like this J-League goalkeeper forgot his Ritalin. And while I was trying to figure out where that video came from (no luck so far anybody?) I came up with this one. I guess it just doesn't pay to be a goalkeeper in Japan. Click to continue reading...

Add this to the list of many reasons why the J. League needs to come mainstream. Kashiwa player Alex was lining up to take a standard corner against the Kashima Antlers when a fan wielding a giant flag whacked him upside the head with it. Alex stayed down for a while but got back up [...] Click to continue reading...

Courtesy of MLSNet.com
NEW YORK -- Major League Soccer and its Japanese counterpart, the J.League, continued to develop their relationship this month, as a J.League delegation toured several MLS markets during the month of September. The 33-person delegation included representatives from 28 of the J. Click to continue reading...