Category Archives: Sport

My JSoccer Magazine Article On Japan Football Museum

Last month I wrote about my contribution to the latest issue of JSoccer magazine; Japan’s number one English language football publication. Since issue #13 was released a sufficient amount of time has passed so I feel its now ok to reproduce the contents … Continue reading →

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Contributing To J-Soccer Magazine

Issue #13 of J-Soccer; Japan’s number one English language football magazine hit the streets recently and, despite an inadequate knowledge of the game in this country, a certain Tokyo Fox managed to feature quite heavily throughout its pages.    My J-Soccer … Continue reading →

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More For Less As Japan’s No. 1 International Women’s Tennis Tournament Changes The Scheduling

Scotland voting no to independence has been the big story of the day, and thanks to Andy Murray’s tweet yesterday in support of his country going it alone, tennis was in the news albeit not for anything to with the … Continue reading →

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England 2014 Pt II: My 1st Time at Madame Tussaud’s Waxwork Museum

One of the things that my mother-in-law wanted to do in London was to visit this very famous and hugely popular waxworks museum. I have to say that I’d never had too much enthusiasm for going to this place which … Continue reading →

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Tokyo Fox’s FIFA World Cup 2014 Overview

Brazil 2014 promised to take this big world event to a country which really is the heartbeat of the FIFA World Cup and though it was fairly disastrous for England (and Japan) the tournament was much better than four years … Continue reading →

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World Cup Opening Titles: Japan/Korea 2002

Whenever there’s a World Cup on the horizon the media tend to look back at past tournaments and so, as a Japanese based website, this as a good opportunity to look back at the 2002 tournament which Japan co-hosted alongside neighbours … Continue reading →

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Leicester City Shop In Bangkok Airport!

Obviously the title of this piece gives the answer away but just about everyone is surprised to hear that its Leicester City, and not Manchester United, Liverpool or Chelsea, who are the English football team allocated the most space in … Continue reading →

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The “5th” Tennis Grand Slam of The Year Took Place In Tokyo & I Was There!

Tennis is a bit of a strange sport in this country. So many people say they play it and courts always being booked up seems to prove that. Many of my students profess to being interested in the game yet … Continue reading →

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Tokyo To Host 2020 Olympics

The trains weren’t exactly abuzz this morning with locals excitedly discussing the fresh news that came from Argentina during the night time but being almost-silent on public transport is how things are done here anyway. The local population’s poor support … Continue reading →

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Watching Urawa Reds vs Arsenal In The Saitama Challenge Cup Final

Friendlies are, and always have been fairly pointless games to watch. I have known this for a long, long time but that hasn’t usually stopped me from going to watch these games but an absence of football in the Summer … Continue reading →

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