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Saitama – The Kawasaki Brave Thunders captured their first Emperor’s Cup in seven years on Saturday. But it’s the way in which they did so that will hopefully serve as a confidence builder toward their ultimate goal — winning the B. League. When thinking of the Brave Thunders, stars such as Nick Fazekas, Ryusei Shinoyama and Naoto Tsuji, who together have anchored the team for much of the last decade, quickly come to mind. But the team didn’t have to lean on those players in order to win the Emperor’s Cup. “It was huge for us to know that what we’ve done all year hasn’t been...

Kensuke Yasui, left, a senior curator at the Toyohashi Museum of Natural History, explains about the donated skull of a Japanese wolf with Hirokazu Sakamoto, the museum’s director, at the Toyohashi city office in Aichi Prefecture. (Hiroto Motoi) TOYOHASHI, Aichi Prefecture--A canine skull that was used as an amulet to recover from diseases is now recognized as the only specimen of an extinct Japanese wolf in Aichi Prefecture, officials at a museum here said. A 75-year-old woman from Toyokawa in the prefecture donated the cranium in January to the Toyohashi Museum of Natural History. “The ...

Feb 13, 2021 The 12 nations scheduled to participate in the final window of Asia Cup qualifying in Doha have been notified by FIBA that the window has been canceled due to a rise in COVID-19 cases in Qatar, the Japan Basketball Association announced Friday night. In late January, the pandemic caused the qualifying window to be shifted from Tokyo to Doha, where the teams, split into three groups of four, would have competed in a bubble. Japan is in Group B — which was scheduled to play from Feb. 18 to 23 — with China, Malaysia and Taiwan. Malaysia and Taiwan had already pulled out...

Aichi: Woman’s corpse found in lake By Tokyo Reporter Staff on February 9, 2021 AICHI (TR) – Aichi Prefectural Police launched an investigation after the discovery of a woman’s corpse in a lake in Toyokawa City last week, reports the Chunichi Shimbun (Feb. 4). At around 6:55 a.m. on February 4, a man out for a walk reported finding the body floating face-up near a bridge in the lake, located in the Mikawa Seaside Park. According to the Toyokawa Police Station, the woman is believed to be in her 30s. The body of the woman showed no signs of external wounds. As well, her clothes had not ...

Feb 9, 2021 The Japan Basketball Association announced its provisional 24-man roster for the upcoming third and final window of the FIBA Asia Cup qualifiers on Tuesday. The roster consists solely of players in the domestic B. League including stars such as Chiba Jets Funabashi point guard Yuki Togashi, Alvark Tokyo guard Daiki Tanaka and SeaHorses Mikawa sharpshooter Kosuke Kanamaru. Japan head coach Julio Lamas listed Jets forward Gavin Edwards, Utsunomiya Brex forward Ryan Rossiter and Osaka Evessa forward Ira Brown as naturalized players in the squad. FIBA relocated the window fro...