Mezamashi TV (video at the bottom) did a not-so-academic study of what sports men can do that impress Japanese Women. Some of these may surprise readers so I’ll do my best to help interpret the results. Let’s start with our top 5 with my comments below: 1. Soccer and Futsal – (not much explanation necessary…
It’s easy to get wrapped up in the international attention being afforded to Japan’s Women’s Olympic Curling Team, Team Aomori. But what happened with to the Japanese men’s team? Qualifying for the Vancouver Olympics was a very straightforward process and easy to understand. To put it simply, teams had their scores from the 2007, 2008,…
If you hear these stories separately, your heart goes out to those involved. When you put the pieces together, you have to worry if there aren’t some very deep seated problems in the management of the Japanese Olympic Women’s Skeleton team. The latest news is that Nozomi Komuro was disqualified for not having the proper…
Team Aomori is the women’s curling team from Japan. They are young and extremely popular in Japan. After the Torino Olympics 4 years ago, the team members continued to find themselves followed by the tabloids and a myriad of fans. This year’s team is also young and good-looking and promises to be popular in Japan…
The Japanese Olympic team snowboarder who made headlines when he was kept out of the opening ceremonies at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics for not following clothing regulations, and for his attitude toward the media and Japanese Olympic Committee. I have seen a lot of news written that seems to imply that the problem was…
If you were around for the last Winter Olympics, I am sure you heard about the complete meltdown of the Japanese Snowboarding Team. The bad rap songs by Melo Imai, the team failing in the qualifying round then reportedly destroying a wall in their Olympic village dorm. Melo Imai is said to have completely broken…
This is a good example of bad sportsmanship… Yet again Daisuke Hayakawa who plays for the Chiba Lotte Marines threw a bat at a catcher. The latest victim is Hosokawa who plays for Seibu. Here are three videos of the Hayakawa throwing a bat! The second video above is the worse and most blatant… it…
OguShio (Kumiko Ogura and Reiko Shiota), the Japanese women’s badminton team, famous for their play and looks recently had a press conference to announce that they would be breaking up, but continuing to play with other partners. There are some cynical ways to view this news. I don’t which, if any, of the following are…
Over here in Japan there’s been a lot of debate and talk and waffling about who will coach the Japanese team at the World Baseball Classic this year. In reference to the WBC coaching controversy in Japan, Ichiro was quoted as saying that it doesn’t even seem like Japan is serious about fielding their strongest…
Japanese Professional Baseball star Kiyohara of the Orix complained about being thrown a change-up by closer Micheal Nakamura of Nippon Ham.Kiyohara argued that Micheal, as the Japanese-Australian player is generally referred to in Japan, should have thrown a fastball instead of striking him out with a low-outside change-up. WITH VIDEO.
The media in Japan was right to hype the Japanese Women’s Badminton team. There were two pairs… one pair, the Satoko Suetsuna-Miyuki Maeda pair was ranked 8th in the world going into the Olympics. The other pair, Kumiko Ogura-Reiko Shiota, were ranked 7th and had won the bronze medal at world championships in Kuala Lumpur. At…
Some people on the internet have been reporting that while people with Chinese flags were allowed to enter the goal area for the Olympic torch relay in Nagano, people with the Tibetan flag were not. According to this report, about 200 Tibet supporters were led to the back side of the park and told that…