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...

It's been a tough week for the citizens of Shimizu.
Faced with the indignity of not one S-Pulse player making the J. Allstars team, football fans awoke last Tuesday to a sizeable earthquake shattering the peace of their sleepy town.
It'll be a different noise rocking the port city this evening, with all 20,330 tickets snapped up for tonight's "Orange Derby" against high-flying Albirex Niigata. Click to continue reading...

Por Nunn
No tienes ni puta idea de que los mejores ultras del mundo están en Japón.
Piensas en aficionados Reds y te sale el Kop y el You'll never walk alone. Piensas en los mejores ultras del mundo y te vas a Italia, Argentina, España... Pero estás engañado, amigo: bienvenido al universo de los ultras del Urawa Red Diamonds, rojos y mejores que todos ellos (y estas imágenes son sólo del calentamiento del equipo)
Allá en Saitama, donde Txiki Begiristain acabó sus días de futbolista o donde Gasol y amigos ganaron el Mundial de baloncesto, se ubica una masa de japos gritones que ha llevado el concepto 'animación en la grada' a una dimensión difícilmente imaginable. Click to continue reading...

The Kashima Antlers juggernaut shows no sign of slowing down as the Ibaraki giants beat Gamba Osaka 1-0 in front of a capacity crowd of 19,092 at Expo '70 Stadium in Osaka.
Former Japan international Koji Nakata stepped into midfield in place of the suspended Mitsuo Ogasawara, and the ex-FC Basel star promptly scored the only goal of the game after just sixteen minutes. Click to continue reading...

Kashima Antlers moved back to the top of the J. League standings following a hard-fought 1-0 win over Vissel Kobe last night.
In a full round of midweek fixtures, Kashima took advantage of Urawa's 2-2 draw away at Shimizu S-Pulse to leapfrog the Saitama giants in the standings.
Imposing defender Daiki Iwamasa scored the only goal of the game, powering home a header to register Kashima's 1000th league goal in the process. Click to continue reading...

A very big truck from SAKAI.
The other codes said Aussies didn't care about the Asian Champions League.
Well here's evidence to show they do.
Adelaide United just 900 tickets left for tonights Quater Final against Kashima Antlers. What code wouldn't like a midweek sell-out! Click to continue reading...

Editor's note: Urawa Reds spent the past week basking in the global spotlight at the World Club Cup, but there's more to Japanese football than them as Furtho explains in part one of a three part series looking at "Squirrel Nation". The Derby There's half an hour to go before kick-off. Away behind one goal, a huddled [. Click to continue reading...

The first day of autumn yielded impressive away day derby wins for both Shimizu S-Pulse and Omiya Ardija.
33,678 fans turned out for the Shizuoka derby at Ecopa Stadium in Fukuroi, but it was the Shimizu fans who were rewarded for making the seventy kilometre journey south, as Cho Jae-Jin's last minute goal handed S-Pulse a dramatic 1-0 win. Click to continue reading...